Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still enjoys nearly hermetic privacy within his wooded 200-acre estate in Tokyo. Now the hounds of modernism are baying over the palace grounds. A 36-story skyscraper is going up a mile from the palace, and court chamberlains have made the ghastly discovery that anyone with a pair of 10-power binoculars can peer straight into the Emperor's living quarters. A quick planting of large evergreens ought to solve that problem, but Tokyo's construction bureau is now considering plans for a 30-story building fronting on the imperial moat itself. What thinks the embattled Emperor...
Also named were a pair of law partners who had been associated with Marcus in various business deals and a bakery-union official convicted during World War II of ration-stamp violations. Then there was Henry Fried, 68, a onetime (1955-57) member of the New York State commission of correction and currently president of S. T. Grand, Inc., the construction firm that was given the Jerome Park job by Marcus-without competitive bidding...
...down on the nearby Coral Sea with the aid of an arresting hook. Hope came away laughing, but just barely. "I haven't felt a hook like that since vaudeville," he told 2,500 gleeful sailors. "I think I lost twelve fillings, and if you see a pair of Jockey shorts buzzing the bridge, they're mine...
...KANSAS CITY'S ERNIE LADD, 29, and Buck Buchanan, 27, are quite a pair. Right Tackle Ladd is 6 ft. 9 in. and 315 Ibs.; Left Tackle Buchanan stands 6 ft. 7 in. and 287 Ibs. Traded to the Chiefs by the Houston Oilers earlier this season, Ladd can dead-lift 700 Ibs., and "when he hits you," says Guard Charlie Long of the Boston Patriots, "he crosses your eyes." Buchanan is no less brutal, but "he doesn't rely totally on power," says Long. "He has a lot of tricks he tries to work...
...call his colleague "Honey." Perry, brutalized since childhood by his rodeo-riding father, is the victim of a motorcycle accident that left his dwarfed legs in perpetual agony. To alleviate the pain, he has become an aspirin addict, chewing tablets in twos and threes. At the farmhouse, the pair's dream of riches turns into a nightmare of disappointment: there is no safe, no money. In an orgy of rage, they kill the four Clutters, an unremarkable family of 4-H prosperity and rectitude...