Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Another Ray Sir: Hey! The Ray Lincolnholl you were talking about in your Feb. 15 issue, who stayed overnight at a Butler University fraternity and left with some of the brothers' possessions...
Well-to-do Australians who used to import their art now decorate their homes with Sidney Nolan's poetic visions of Australia's "outback," William Dobell's savagely realistic portraits, or the landscapes of the late Aborigine Albert Na-matjira. And with Ray Lawler's play, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll-which got raves in London-Aussie audiences for the first time accorded box-office success to a play by an Australian about Australians in the Australian language...
...Luce, playwright turned diplomat. In a memorably lyrical series for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, she reported her experiences: "What fishes like flowers, what stones like trees. The coral reefs are a golden girdle of dead and living cities, which dwarf in their age and beauty all the cities of man." Says Ray Hoaglund. a 34-year-old electrician and one of the nation's 200,000 free divers (world total: 350,000): "We're looking for something-God knows what it is. It's not adventure and thrills. There are certain words that come close to describing it-mystery...
Calm in the Deep. In contrast, Cousteau has no fear at all of the manta ray and the barracuda, two overrated killers of the deep. Sharks are a more puzzling matter. "There is a threat from sharks," admits Cousteau, "but it is very, very small. The last thing for a diver to do is to flee. The good diver stays and faces the shark." Cousteau's men never use knives or guns on sharks because of the danger of provoking attack, shove away intruders with clubs made of broomsticks cut in half. Cousteau himself once routed a shark...
Last week Ray Soifer, who is manager of M.I.T.'s freshman fencing team, was more eager to get over to Harvard for a crucial match than to talk about his achievement. "This is one area, you know, where we teen-agers have as many advantages as older people doing the same work. After all, it started less than four years ago. To me it seemed like a fairly simple plug-in operation. But then I guess they always do, afterward...