Word: pats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day, overcoming the judges with a peerless exhibition, the women's defending champion, comely Pat McCormick, 26, a California housewife, spun through intricate optional dives, performed a final running full-twisting forward one-and-a-half somersault that was good enough to add the platform title to her springboard victory and make her the first diver ever to win both titles in two Olympics. This was slim pickings, indeed, compared to Russia's sweep of 11 of the 17 gold medals in gymnastics, three of which were won by lovely Larisa Latynina...
Weight of Evidence. In London, after her auto turned turtle, outsized (217 Ib.) Housewife Pat Wilkins was fined $28 for reckless driving despite her explanation: "I'm really a very careful driver, but there was just so much weight on one side of the car that it overturned...
...Martin starred for the Yardlings, winning both the 600 and the 1000, both in good early season times. In the broad jump, sophomore Dave Gately jumped 20 feet, 5 1/2 inches to win the varsity competition, while freshman Pat Liles jumped 20 feet, 8 1/4 inches. Senior Hank Moore and freshman Dick Lee both jumped 5 feet 10 inches to win the high jump. Jim Doty won both the weight and shot for the varsity...
...Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey cartwheel out with a proposal that won top billing in a slow political week. Along with five other Northern and Western Democrats (Illinois' Paul Douglas, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Richard Neuberger, Montana's James Murray and Michigan's Pat McNamara), Humphrey circulated for publication a "Democratic Declaration of 1957." Its message: as soon as the Congress opens, make an attempt to end Senate filibusters and enact civil-rights legislation...
...past few seasons. Possibly Playwright Nash, who showed plenty of humor in The Rainmaker and has glints of it here, intended something more relaxed. If so, his failure lies partly in an ill-wrought play, partly in an overwrought production. Barring the loudmouthed stranger (well-played by Pat Hingle), who for a time is invigorating, the characters do little more than suffer from upset psyches or indulge in the sexual miseries. Each revealing scene is repeated, with variations, two or three times, and betweenwhiles a neighborhood trumpeter steadily caterwauls offstage. All this not only destroys sympathy for the characters...