Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today's Harvard-Dartmouth game represented, in addition to the confrontation of two of last year's Ivy League co-champions and the wagering of a pair of perfect records, the eleventh round in a personal football rivalry between Harvard head coach John Yovicsin and Dartmouth's Bob Blackman...
...tiny claim owned by Petrus Ramoboa, 38, in the South African kingdom of Lesotho. Ramoboa carried his stone 110 miles to the capital of Maseru, with government help sold it for $302,400 to a South African merchant. Winston, the third owner, called the Lesotho diamond "practically perfect," said he will cut it into about 20 stones selling for more than $1,000,000. As for Petrus Ramoboa, he has already gone out and bought himself a suit, three frying pans, and two new wives...
...world so cold," says Union Carbide Engineer Roger Thompson, "that the very air you breathe turns to liquid or freezes as solid as a block of ice, where steel is as brittle as glass, a rubber ball shatters when it hits the floor, and lead is an almost perfect conductor of electricity." The odd goings-on described by Engineer Thompson all occur in the far-out world of cryogenics-the science of ultra-low temperatures...
...friends," he cried, "about those blemishes, which are pimples! Yes, pimples. If you can't get rid of them, at least have them spell 'love' on your forehead." Says Cousin Brucie (no kin to Juicy), top screamer on WABC in Manhattan: "If they ever find the perfect pimple cream...
Luck helped Harvard on Cornell's next drive. Robertson found end Bob Horn 15 yards inside Crimson territory with a perfect pass. Defender Cobb had been faked deep and Horn was all alone, but he bobbled the ball and couldn't control it as he stepped out of bounds...