Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems that captain Bobby Beller, the Brooklyn brawler, will start alongside of springy-legged junior Bob Johnson with Eric Gustafson and Jeff Grate in close reserve. Grate, a two year star, has been sidelined by illness in early practice sessions and doesn't seem to be at the peak of his jump-shooting game...
Sophomore Jack Turco, an accomplished playmaker, centers the second line, with junior Barry Johnson on his left and senior Don Grimble on the right. Grimble is another player whose effectiveness was diminished by shuffling between defense and forward, but the former freshman captain should reach his Harvard peak now that he is securely set at wing...
...mother ship that had carried him aloft to 45,000 ft. Then his ammonia and liquid-oxygen rocket motor ignited with 60,000 lbs. of thrust, hurtling him skyward for 80 sec. until his fuel burned out. Seconds before he glided upward to "go over the top" at his peak altitude of 261,000 ft., Adams radioed calmly to report loss of control of the X-15's pitch-and-roll dampers, twelve small rocket nozzles that guide the craft in a near vacuum. "Let's try and get them on," radioed back Major William ("Pete") Knight...
...almost industry-wide "Discover America" excursion fares. Generally, such fares offer a 25% discount from regular round-trip jet coach rates, while requiring travelers to return no sooner than the following calendar week and no later than 30 days after they start. The fare cannot be used during two peak travel times: noon to midnight Fridays and noon Sundays to noon Mondays...
...style for his own college band; later he became a drummer for Glenn Miller, a writer and editor for the old Metronome magazine, and a producer for records, radio and TV. Now, drawing heavily on his Metronome files, he has packed all he knows about the peak of swing (1935-46) into an encyclopedic volume, The Big Bands (Macmillan; $9.95). Like the zealots of whom and to whom it speaks, the book is cheerfully biased, sometimes repetitive, often superficial-and just as often stirringly evocative of the fervid period when so many groups (Simon mentions some 450) "swung freely...