Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...completion of Rooks' analysis and cure, he felt that making a film about it would be the perfect way to enact a final exorcism of the demons, rid his mind and body once-and-for-all of drugs and liquor. Backed by a family fortune which had previously sustained his drug habit, Rooks cast himself in the lead part (giving himself a pseudonym, Russell Harwick), and went to work in 16mm, deciding 6 months later to do it up proud and shoot professionally in 35mm. Only a few of the original shots remain, indicated by a black strip of masking...
...Axten's saves--a diving grab of a grasscutter aimed at the far corner--came in the first period, Yale's strongest. Two minutes after that try, Crimson captain Joe Gould robbed Yale's left wing of an open-net, point-blank shot with a lunging deflection of a perfect center which had passed Axten...
...descent radar alone), scientists considered the first four craft as "engineering models," and would have been delighted if only one of them had made a successful soft landing. Thus no one was more surprised than the JPL and Hughes crews when the first Surveyor not only made a perfect landing and transmitted back thousands of pictures of the lunar surface but also proved so durable that it came back to life after each of two lunar nights, having survived temperatures...
...fact, from the promoter's point of view, the scheme is well-nigh perfect. So obvious are its charms that when a New Orleans bartender received a probing letter, he neither responded nor complained. He immediately went into the business himself. So did a Boston law student. The original U.S. outfit was apparently Legal Research Inc. in Newport Beach, Calif.; now it has at least 17 competitors, operating everywhere from London to Philadelphia. As for the addressees, even those who fully understand what the letter says may be tempted; $6 against an inheritance of thousands sounds like a good...
...eleven TD passes to his credit compared with seven all last year. Then there is a general inconsistency to contend with. Says Princeton's Coach Dick Colman: "With no spring practice and other things on their minds, our players don't have time to be letter-perfect. On any given day, anything can happen." Adds Harvard Coach John Yovicsin: "Look. We have boys who will take a four-hour exam the day of the game. If they feel good afterwards, fine. If they don't, we're suddenly behind 45 to nothing...