Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minus New York's Tom Dewey, Republican presidential candidate in 1944 and 1948 and a Nixon in '60 man, who will miss his first convention in 20 years because, as he told Rocky with a straight face, he has business appoint ments in Europe...
...commander of the 6,$4Qth Test Wing (Satellite), listening through earphones to the crackle of reports from a vast communications network. Mathison made a final check with radar tracking stations scattered around the earth. All were ready. From Cape Canaveral, Fla. came the word: "RF system ready." At T minus 10 seconds, "Moose" Mathison gave Canaveral the go-ahead: "Ready to launch." Canaveral's countdown neared its end: ". . . eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one-main stage ignited." Mathison hunched forward,. almost as though he were riding with the huge missile. Cried he: "Go, baby...
...ticket only to find themselves at a party snubbed by its hoped-for guest of honor. (Said an aide: "The general does not like to attend empty social affairs.") And for a touchy moment or two, pickets carried placards crying "Libérez l'Algérie," but minus his eyeglasses the nearsighted general never noticed...
...been equally concerned at the facility with which Newsman Benson, himself an admittedly indifferent undergraduate student (Class of '49, with a C-plus average, at New York City's Queens College), sailed through an exam beamed at graduate students. Said Ghost-Scholar Benson, who wrote an A-minus test paper: "It was a cinch...
Despite his record breaking, the easygoing history major (B-minus grades) has never yet really been pushed, has finished some races looking back at the field with a laugh on his face. At the Olympics in Rome this summer, Burleson will get plenty of pushing from such stars as Czechoslovakia's Stanislav Jungwirth (3:38.1 for the 1,500 meters) and Australia's Herb Elliott, record holder of the mile (3:54.5) and 1,500 meters (3:36). Says the confident Burleson: "If I can keep within 20 yards of the leader of a race, I figure...