Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong was his love for the sport that last summer he persuaded his brown-haired bride Rickie, 22, to share it with him. Her first jump was perfect, though she laughed about landing in a mud puddle. The second time up, last August, she left the plane in a bad body position-back arched toward the ground. Rickie became entangled in her main chute lines, her reserve chute snarled and, as John Wasik watched from the ground, she fell to her death...
...round athlete leads a hectic life, particularly at Notre Dame, where legend is the game's middle name. Take Kevin Hardy, 22. He can break 80 on anyone's golf course, execute a perfect jackknife off a diving board, or play expert handball. But rarely does Hardy have the time. He has had to give up basketball altogether-a fact that saddens Irish fans who remember Hardy as a sophomore, coming off the bench to break up a game with Ohio University. Kevin also had to skip spring football practice this year because he was busy batting...
...Broadway play The Tiger, Author Murray Schisgal has fashioned a cinematic cornucopia overflowing with sight and sound gags. In the end, the film degenerates into flat-out vaudeville buffoonery, but along the way it offers enough laughs to supply an entire season of canned TV comedies. The near-perfect performances of Jackson and Wallach-recreating their stage roles-are augmented by a parade of outstanding character actors. The funniest: Charles Nelson Reilly, as a clock-watching university registrar whose face is a festival of tics...
...Englanders, the world is divided into two parts: New England and elsewhere. Because the Red Sox are the lone baseball team to inhabit this hallowed ground, it has been assumed by local fans that they must be perfect, and that only the cruel workings of fate could prevent them from winning the pennant. Fate has been awfully cruel for the last 20 years...
...bright day last summer, Henry G. Berg, Assistant to the Fogg Art Museum Director, wandered past the just-completed brick courtyard in front of Lehman Hall and decided it was the perfect place for the bronze sculpture, then gathering dust in the Fogg basement...