Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer with his socks off, and already there are signs of backlash. "Socklessness is a cultural leftover," fumes one Princetonian. Sock sales are even rising in some areas. Still, as the first snowstorms swirled across the Midwest last week the purists were standing fast. "If I could get a pair of lined desert boots," said one, thinking onward in Wisconsin, "maybe I could get by all year without socks...
...Lawlor, a 4:10 miler from the Naval Academy, Hardin finally met his match. The Crimson sophomore stayed on the Annapolis senior's shoulder for the first three and a half miles. Then, when the front-running pair hit the hills the second time around the course, Lawlor pulled away to win by a 13 second margin...
After a grueling 38-week session, practically everybody in Congress had hustled home to the hustings for a few speeches before Election Day. Staying behind in Washington, however, was an indefatigable pair: Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, 69, and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, 70, who went on orating in their pajamas at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Russell was in for a routine physical, Dirksen for an operation to remove the surgical pins from the hip he fractured last spring. It looked as if they were getting set for a hot debate on Medicare...
...French Riviera, where Picasso lives. Grateful citizens of Vallauris, the town Picasso resurrected by reviving its pottery industry, sent a huge bouquet of red roses with a white dove in a cage, and their children sent batches of their best crayon drawings. His wife Jacqueline, 41, gave him a pair of 16th century lead dogs for the garden...
United Nations. The team is rounded out by a pair of provocative columnists whose politics defy pigeonholing: Novelist John Steinbeck and Master Builder Robert Moses...