Word: pitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Better than Budge," said famed Coach Mercer Beasley-and who was Rod to argue when he was guaranteed $110,000 to play with the pros? "If you really want the satisfaction of knowing how good you can be," Laver explained, "you've got to pit yourself against guys like Rosewall and Gonzales. My ambition is to become No. 1-and stay there as long as possible...
...Foreign sales of Ramblers rose to a record 37,580 units during the first six months of the fiscal year. Anxious to tap the other side of that market, Abernethy hopes that the restyled cars will be equally attractive to U.S. customers who have been buying imports, plans to pit the compact American directly against small, imported cars...
...Morio Shigematsu, 25: the 69th Boston Marathon, pit-patting over the grueling 26-mi. 385-yd. course in 2 hrs. 16 min. 33 sec. to clip a full 2 min. off the record set two years ago by Belgium's Aurele Vandendriessche; at Boston. Shigematsu led a parade of his countrymen across the line; Japanese took second, third, fifth and sixth places as well. Vandendriessche wound up fourth; first U.S. runner to finish was Ralph Buschmann in seventh place...
Harvard fought back in the second half, as Pit Marshal and Gage McAfee led repeated charges toward the goal. But four missed penalty kicks, one from only ten yards out, kept the Crimson from the scoreboard...
...Pharaoh Psamtik I, who commissioned a stylized likeness of himself in rare and unfrugal alabaster, ordered it set in the temple of Amun at Karnak. Permanence, at least in alabaster, is not man's lot; as time passed, his statue was broken in half and thrown into a pit near the temple. In 1951 the top half was bought by Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. This month the bust was rejoined with the missing lower half to make the proud minister once more a whole man (see opposite page...