Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...games the world champions lost all year. He is known in the trade as a "scrambler," who would just as soon run as throw, who can turn a potential 10-yd. loss into a 50-yd. gain. He also has something that Joe Namath no longer has: a pair of sturdy knees...
Last year's winner in the sabre and runner-up in the foil, Leverett's Russell, who fenced with a pair of ripped pants, passed up the foil this year to concentrate on the less disciplined sabre and epee events. He had some close calls last night, edging Munch and Winthrop's Phil Chase by identical 5-4 scores...
...year later, Luce returned from Europe with a mustache, a cane, a pair of spats and two dimes in his pocket. He managed to land a job on the Chicago Daily News as an assistant to Ben Hecht. Hecht was a raffish columnist (and later a playwright) who used Luce as a legman to supply suggestions and information about such people as snake charmers and blind violinists. Among the paper's reporters and editors, Luce was considered something of a dandy and a dilettante. Dressed to meet his girl, he ran into the managing editor in the elevator...
...Francisco's KSFO likes to say. "I see cars swerving in and out of traffic lanes." Reporting for New York's WCBS, Bob Richardson and Neal Busch call themselves "Orville" and "Wilbur," their helicopters "help-o-copters." Last month Los Angeles' KABC hired a pair of chatty girls, blonde Kelly Lange and brunette Lorri Ross, to be traffic spotters. Outfitted in snug, silver pants, the girls quickly mastered the special vocabulary used to describe the chaos beneath them. In the lingo of the traffic reporters, "gapers' block" is a tie-up caused by motorists slowing down...
...already has more acts going than the Ed Sullivan Show. Beyond its established operations in radio and TV, phonograph records and technological R. & D., it has 1) a quartet of companies that make drums, banjos, electric guitars, violin strings and other musical gear, 2) a pair of small Los Angeles producers of educational films, 3) Creative Playthings, a Princeton, N.J. maker of instructional toys and 4) the New York Yankees, who have been teaching the first baseman's trade to their brawny but brittle superstar, ex-Outfielder Mickey Mantle, in order to preserve his ailing legs-and possibly...