Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pick whom you will for Harvard's first four-minute miler. Either Baker or Shaw could hit the mark any day. Maybe they won't do it indoors, and maybe they won't do it at all this season. It would hardly be the end of things if they didn't. Says McCurdy: "They're two proud, competitive athletes. Sure they'd like to break four, but it's certainly not the most important thing in the world." It shouldn...
...fleet consists of ships 25 years old or older, the Soviet navy's sur face fleet is sleek and modern. "Almost every time you go into a harbor," says U.S. Navy Captain Harry Allendorfer, an expert on Soviet seapower, "if there are no flag markings and you pick out the cleanest and best-looking ships, nine out of ten of them will be Russian...
LATIN AMERICA A Chance to Create The Organization of American States has long been a deeply troubled and largely ineffective body. At no time were its problems more visible than when the OAS's 22 member nations set out last November to pick a new secretary-general to replace Uruguay's retiring Jose A. Mora. What seemed like a simple task dragged on through three months of petty politicking, bickering and name-calling. Last week, the OAS finally settled on the man that it should have chosen in the first place: Ecuador's Galo Plaza Lasso...
...taut rather than tired businessman who has kept his eye on his weight and his secretary. The wife has suspected as much: "You were working three nights a week-we weren't getting any richer." She seems put out that her husband had no more enterprise than to pick his secretary as bedmate. Along with the jesting banter and bitchiness of the much married comes a feeling of poignancy for two people who find that love, like the sand in a thousand breakfast egg timers...
...faults except that it is neither tense nor in any way Middle Eastern. The wily Lebanese banker, the fanatic Syrian colonel, the Israeli undercover agent and his trusty Damascan mistress all speak as if their lines had been written for them by-to pick an absurd example-a plonking Australian novelist named Morris West, author of The Shoes of the Fisherman. This is Eric Ambler territory, and no Western writer less accustomed to its rigors should go out in the Mideast...