Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twice Booth led Yale drives for touchdowns, and twice he came through with perfect dropkicks, the second one putting the Elis ahead for the first time that afternoon. Then, with the partisan Yale Bowl crowd in an uproar, Booth took an Army punt on his own 20 and twisted 80 yards through the entire Cadet team for the score that clinched the game...
Emmet then gained a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five deuce only to tin a routine drive. On the final point of the match, Howe dropped a perfect lob serve in Emmet's backhand court, which the Crimson player could not effectively return. Howe's follow-up drive down the wall extracted the final error and ended the match...
Like a high-strung thoroughbred finally cured of its jitters, the much-criticized Vanguard ran a perfect race last week. Of seven earlier Vanguard firings, six had been failures, and the seventh put only a grapefruit-sized, 3.25-lb. satellite in orbit. Last week's shot was perfect. All three stages of the 72-ft., pencil-slim rocket fired without a hitch. The satellite, which had the full design weight of 21.5 Ibs., settled into an orbit slightly higher than had been expected. Its perigee (lowest point) is 347 miles above the earth; its apogee (highest point...
...Perfect Patcher. A rubber paste that sets in a few hours to long-lasting pliant rubber was put on the market by Devcon Corp. Uses: to calk or waterproof boats, insulate wires, or patch holes in shoe soles. Price: 98? for a 4-oz. tube...
...Perfect Furlough. A bubbly cliché cocktail mixed by a sexy WAC (Janet Leigh) and a corporeal corporal (Tony Curtis). Guaranteed: exactly 287 laughs...