Word: rubberizing
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Dowling fell behind, 7-5, in the rubber match, but the then ran off seven straight to held...
They finally settled on a dark horse: Leonid Brezhnev, then the figurehead Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the rubber-stamp parliament. They did not anticipate his further advance. Aware of his rather low intellect, they were convinced that this unprepossessing man would be unable to hold his own against them...
...Members Geidar Aliyev, 61, and Vitali Vorotnikov, 59, Gorbachev was an Andropov protege. His standing as the probable front runner appeared to get a powerful endorsement last month: the official Communist Party daily, Pravda, listed him as one of four candidates to represent Moscow districts in elections for the rubber-stamp Supreme Soviet, or parliament, of the Russian Republic scheduled for Feb. 24. The other three candidates: Chernenko, Soviet Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, and Politburo Member and Moscow Party Chief Viktor Grishin...
...former Gov. Edward J. King, a conservative Democrat whom Reagan has named his "favorite Democratic governor," may have a go at his archrival in the Democratic primary or as an Independent. King ousted a cocksure Dukakis in 1978. Dukakis toppled incumbent King in 1982, Round three--the rubber match--could be a doozie...
...unusual highlight is a Ray Bolger dance which editors cut from The Wizara of Oz. Just before Dorothy and the Scarecrow hit the Yellow Brick Road, Bolger performs a comic dance in which he flies through the air and, with the help of reverse photography, catapults off rubber fences up and down the lane. Although, in retrospect, Gene Kelly wonders at its exclusion, this bizarre dance clearly clashes with the conventional dancing in the rest of the show...