Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Connecticut's Thames River last Saturday. The record of 19 minutes 21.4 seconds was set by Harvard in 1948. The Crimson's times have not been released, but supposedly were somewhat higher. As always however, bare statistics do not tell the whole story. The Blue crew rowed in near-perfect weather, while Harvard's race was timed under somewhat poorer conditions...
...Team. The pair made an almost perfect space team. Inside Man McDivitt is a superb pilot and a first-class engineer who is the son of an electrical engineer. Outside Man White is a daring flyer, a fine athlete, a military career-man who is the son of a retired Air Force major general who flew everything from balloons to jets...
...background music was perfect: outside the Central Maine Youth Cen ter teen-age carolers chanted The Mickey Mouse March. So was the lighting: to ensure a "perfect" picture for the closed-circuit telecast that carried the action to 257 theaters across the U.S., technicians installed huge klieg lights that sent the temperature at ringside to 100°. Then there was the supporting cast. Spooked by reports that followers of the late Malcolm X planned to avenge their leader's death by assassinating Black Muslim Clay, some 300 Lewiston police, county sheriffs, state troopers, firemen and civil defense workers milled...
...wing of a fly." Scared silly, he drinks himself into a stupor. But when his head clears, God is still on his back and dawn is breaking. "A tree of light burst over the skyline. He felt the light pouring through him, turning his spiderweb soul into a perfect arabesque of colors, a garden of trees and birds and beasts." In terror and wonder, he presents himself to his wife. She takes one look at his back and drives him out of the house. "Idolatry! Idolatry!" Broken and bewildered but blazoned in bliss, the redneck stands in the widening...
...invited to a costume party and decided to go as a lion. Unable to afford a ready made costume he fashioned his own out of old yellow bedspreads. For the mane, Morris ingeniously dyed a watercress and some lamb's wool gold and wired them together. His costume was perfect except that when he moved embarrassing squeaking noises issued from his mane. Morris telephoned his friend George for advice...