Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, before a crowd of 54,681 in Shea Stadium, those selfsame Jets beat the Houston Oilers 52-13 - thereby humbling an outfit that was favored to win not only the game but also the American Football League's eastern division championship. That one game may not make them the best team in pro football or even the A.F.L. - but don't whisper that within earshot of their defensive line, which weighs in at 260 Ibs. a man. What the Jets certainly are at this point in the season is the most expensive, explosive and exciting ball...
Learning that some right-wing officers were scheming to bring Wessin back, Balaguer denounced the plot on television, though carefully absolving Wessin of any complicity. He then appointed Wessin an alternate Dominican delegate to the U.N. with the rank of ambassador, and ordered Wessin's old autonomous outfit at San Isidro airbase to be divided among other units throughout the country. Furthermore, Balaguer ordered a reorganization of the military so that "the barracks can no longer be used as a springboard" for political activities. So far, the military has accepted the President's orders without any visible signs...
...behind: "I haven't been training in Lightnings for the last two years." Besides, the King of the Hellenes had the satisfaction of presenting the winner's silver cup to a countryman, George Andreadis. Later, Constantine exchanged his striped boating shirt and sneakers for a more formal outfit, and rushed back to the royal summer home on Corfu to help the royal family celebrate the 20th birthday of his wife, Queen Anne-Marie. His birthday present? "A state secret," said the King...
...Houston's Ernest M. Hall Jr. headed Hall-Sears Inc., an obscure electronics outfit with earnings of $10,781 on gross sales of $95,000. Three years later, Hall merged with a small uranium mining company and became president of the new firm, now known as Westec; its share sold for 4¼ on the American Stock Exchange. For the first half of 1966, Westec announced earnings of $5,345,567 on sales of $31,-693,395; the company's stock soared to a high of 67⅛ in April...
...Chinese, the British have developed a technique for transmitting rabies to an enemy army. It is too much for one of the officers (unduly sensitive to such questions, as his beloved broad has just been diagnosed for cancer), who would maybe like to join a way-outfit called the Anti-Death League. This is an intelligent man's nightmare, with the famous Amis wit flickering as an unkindly light amid the encircling gloom...