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...second lap, Slovak had the lead. Then they disappeared into a dust cloud. When they blasted through, Love was in front. Averaging 388.81 m.p.h., he gradually pulled away by two miles-but it was only a moral victory. Second place in the heat was all Slovak needed to nail down the winner's check...
...fronts of cereal boxes. Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Co. of Fort Worth advertises its campus slacks by picturing them worn by a tiger, and another manufacturer of slacks, Thomson Co. of New York, shows a tiger skin with a girl's head. Fabergé has added a "Tigress" nail polish and lipstick to its "Tigress" perfume, which is advertised with a tiger-stripe background...
...Unification" made up of the three generals and representatives of the Buddhists, Catholics, and possibly of the students. Despite an appeal by the triumvirate "to love one another," Vietnamese continued to roam the wreckage-littered streets, setting upon one another with bricks, bamboo rods, lead pipes, meat cleavers, nail-studded clubs, chains, truncheons, Molotov cocktails. The companions of one dead Buddhist dipped their hands in his blood, smeared it on their faces as war paint. A Catholic youth lay in a first-aid room, a hatchet protruding from his head...
...flash of magnesium flares stirred Cunningham's ten-member troupe into an otherworldly, slow-motion ballet. In the orchestra pit, Conductor Cage slowly raised and lowered his arms like a railroad signal, while his two-man orchestra conjured a percussive nightmare with such ear-splitting accents as a nail file rasped across a metal music stand. When the sound system shorted and buzzed harshly for several minutes, the audience accepted it as part of the show...
...Willard in 1961 from Amherst, where he was assistant professor of humanities. "I knew nothing about teen-age girls," he said, but his ignorance has been a blessing. While keeping academic standards as tough as ever, he has softened some of the starchiness. Young ladies may now wear pink nail polish...