Word: near-perfect
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...near-perfect finish in the last race gave the Crimson sailors a spectacular upset victory over the Frostbite group of the Boston Yacht Club on Saturday...
Clarkson erased the Crimson's lead midway through the final period, when LaPointe tallied his second goal of the evening on an assist from Pettersen. With 2:20 to go Beckett gave the Crimson a seemingly insurmountable 5-4 lead on a near-perfect breakaway solo. After jumping the defensemen Beckett took a pas from Dave Morse. Picking up the puck just over the red line, Beckett steamed down the ice and beat the goalie...
...Snyder of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., spacecraft may be built largely of plastics, which will fare better than metals in the hostile outer world. Snyder and W. B. Cross of Goodyear Aircraft Corp. told an Air Force space conference in Dayton that many metals "boil away" slowly in the near-perfect vacuum of space. Plastics, which are made of long molecular chains linked and tangled together, are less volatile than metals, and therefore should last longer...
...during the U-2 incident, but, he added wryly, "what was I supposed to do-chicken?" London, who has performed the role often in the U.S. and Europe, had only three days to rehearse with the Bolshoi Opera. He proved to be in top form, sang his part in near-perfect Russian (although he does not speak the language). The audience gave him a standing ovation and eight curtain calls. Said London: "This is the climax of a life-long dream...
...lives quietly in a three-apartment building in suburban Silver Spring, Md. The other apartments are occupied by Bill Lewis, her ubiquitous administrative assistant, and his parents. Her office is run with taut efficiency, and every letter is answered by return, mail. One fetish: her insistence on maintaining a near-perfect record of voting on every Senate measure, however trivial. The record to date: 908 roll calls...