Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Keenan talks in obsessive clichés about the threat of "foreigners and blacks," is too troubled by nightmarish fear of the Blessed Virgin to get married. Ex-Schoolteacher Zoe Bryce broods endlessly upon her first kiss, which occurred when she was 37. It was perpetrated by an unshaven seaman who crept to her bed in the ship's hospital, kissed her and disappeared unrecognized forever...
...womanly urge to create something, anything, is fulfilled just once-when she twists some tinfoil into the semblance of a sculptured forest scene and is admired for it. "The communication of my life," she sums herself up, "a kiss in mid-ocean between myself and a half-drunken seaman. The creation of my life-oh my God!-a silver-paper shape fashioned from the remains of an empty cigarette packet...
...Morgenthau's background includes Deerfield. Amherst (magna cum laude) and Yale Law School-and a good war record: he enlisted in the Navy as an apprentice seaman during World War II, emerged a lieutenant commander with several decorations after having two ships torpedoed out from under him. Picked last year by Bobby Kennedy as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, he worked up a series of successful narcotics, stock market and income tax fraud prosecutions...
Planned Racing. Nobody is quite sure how Igloi goes about getting the most out of his runners-not even Beatty or his Los Angeles Track Club Teammates Jim Grelle and Bob Seaman. "I give them schedules," says Igloi, "but then I change my mind three times. Many times I change my mind. They don't know why. This is the secret of the training." Says Beatty: "It's like being taught mathematics. You do what the teacher says to achieve the right results...
Igloi plans every race in minute detail. Last week's plan at Helsinki: Seaman was to lead the first quarter-mile, run it in 55.5 sec.; Grelle was to take over for the second quarter, do a 61-sec. lap; Beatty was to set a 2-min. 56-sec. pace through three quarters. After that, said Igloi, all three runners were on their own. Igloi's target: a 3-min. 54-sec. mile. Seaman broke fast-perhaps too fast; Grelle and Beatty took turns leading the parade through three quarters; then Beatty turned on his blistering kick...