Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...range far afield from criminal matters into divorce cases, income tax disputes, industrial espionage. One female operative working in San Francisco for the Internal Revenue Service wore a tiny transmitter concealed in her brassiere. She would encourage her prey to put his head on her bosom, thereby assuring perfect reception. Thus does Government bureaucracy these days re-create the world of James Bond...
...triple-bogey seven that took him out of contention. The tournament be came Sanders, Thomas and Nicklaus, all tied at one under par. Sanders and Thomas finished early, with scores of 283, and sat around the clubhouse waiting for slow, methodical Jack. Out on the battlefield, Nicklaus slammed a perfect drive down the middle of the 17th fairway, then hit a magnificent iron to the green within 15 feet of the cup. Barely missing the putt for an eagle three, he settled for a birdie on the par-five hole. That was it. A routine par on the 18th...
...grandson went to work selling off the collection of nearly 60,000 manuscripts and 50,000 books. It was not until recently that London rare-book dealers, still sorting through remnants of the Phillipps heap, found the prize of his collection. There, scattered loosely, in virtually perfect condition, were the 272 pages of what is believed to be the first book with English illustrations ever prepared for printing. They formed the first nine books of a translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Books 10 through 15, unillustrated, were given to Cambridge University by Diarist Samuel Pepys 278 years...
...Kans. Now audiences everywhere, surf-bored by the dry run of Hollywood's beach-party musicals, may relish the joys of Summer as it follows a pair of skillful California surfers, Mike Hynson and Robert August, on a three-month, round-the-world tour in search of the perfect wave...
...This is a wonderful idea for a gag, and someday, perhaps, a very funny, light picture will be made out of it. David Warner, who plays Morgan in Morgan, should definitely star in that picture too, since his big-boned--affine, dammit--face and nimble movements are a perfect abstraction of apeness...