Word: overhead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gallwey and Fred Vinton tripped up Scott and Tom Freiberg, 5-7, 17-15, 9-7, while Junta and Sears triumphed over Dell and Clark in three tight sets, 8-6, 3-6, 6-3. It was fitting that the deciding point of the entire meet was a backhand overhead putaway by Junta, one of the hardest shots in tennis...
...Leandro, California, Junta had come to Harvard on a full Navy scholarship. Because he was committed to an eight-week cruise each summer, Junta had almost no time to practice or enter tournaments. He was a strong natural athlete with incredibly powerful strokes, especially his serve and overhead. The summer before his senior year he had taken a week off from his job and without much practice had won the National Hard Courts Junior Championship. He had also won the New England Intercollegiates his sophomore and junior years...
...year executive-vice-presidency of Colgate-Palmolive. A veteran of package-goods wars at Colgate, at advertising agencies (his own and Ruthrauff & Ryan) and at Good Humor Corp. (where he had been president), Mahoney, 44, proved to be a dash of effervescence. By paring administrative overhead and closing two of the company's 16 bottling plants, he cut $1,500,000 a year from operating costs. To pep up promotion, he hired two new ad agencies for soft drinks; he allocated more money to plug such profitable sidelines as Canada Dry gin and vodka and Johnnie Walker scotch, which...
...plane circling overhead will drop forty thousand anti-draft leaflets on downtown Boston when Raymond A. Mungo, a first-year graduate student in English, refuses induction at 8 a.m. Wednesday at the Boston Army Base...
...Marines southbound on the east, ARVN Marines headed the same way on the west. Clearing the way through the city's debris-covered avenues came U.S. tanks, their turret guns swiveling from side to side as if to sniff the air, then belching fire at the Citadel walls. Overhead, helicopters sprayed napalm across the ponds and courtyards of the Imperial Palace, and fighter-bombers blasted away at three main enemy positions. From below, out to sea, a U.S. cruiser kept shelling the Communists...