Word: rackely
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...over a period of two or three days. "If we had done that," continued Moyers, "that would have been managing the news. Newsmen complain if they get too little and if they get too much. As Oscar Wilde put it, 'In the old days we had the rack. Today we have the press...
...Pitching a tent used to be akin to struggling with an octopus. Now Moss Tents of Ann Arbor, Mich. (P.O. Box 54), has produced the Bubble Tent, which can be zipped effortlessly into place in H min. flat. Carried in an 8-ft. tube attached to the station-wagon rack, it pulls out in one move, pops open like an umbrella, stays aloft by means of fiber glass poles, and sleeps four in airy, mosquito-proof comfort. Cost...
...Angeles Dodgers; in Los Angeles. Traded to the New York Mets by the Milwaukee Braves after a dismal 1964 season in which he won only six games, the winningest pitcher in baseball today struck out two men in the ninth inning to cut off a Dodger rally, rack up the 357th victory of his major-league career...
...stands and stormed the court as the weary Celtics tottered to the locker room. A souvenir hunter ripped a sneaker right off Bill Russell's foot. Of course, it was not over yet: the Celtics still had to get past the Los Angeles Lakers to rack up their seventh straight N.B.A. title. "Oh, they'll win," shrugged Chamberlain. But next year, baby! Maybe...
...tuxedo, and Onofrio Lauri, whose favorite trick is to polish his bald pate with a handkerchief so that it will reflect the table lights into the eyes of his opponents. There, too, was Irving Crane, who in one year at Hobart College learned mostly how to run a rack so fast that his friends call him "Machine Gun." Luther ("Wimpy") Lassiter was on hand, cheerfully admitting that he has not done an honest day's work since he earned "810 an hour" delivering groceries at 15. Once Lassiter spotted a "mark" 40 points in a 100-point match...