Word: spar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual mighty scowl plastered across his face, World Heavyweight Champion Sonny Listen, 29, arrived in Norway on a barnstorming jaunt through Scandinavia, but the 25,000 fans who paid their way in to watch him spar made Listen sunny. Even the news that his proposed fight this week with showy but second-rate German Heavyweight Uli Ritter was off could not dampen his spirits. He hied himself to a Swedish bastu (steam bath) and had himself steamed and scourged with branches until he was his jovially ferocious self again...
...seemed to be growing as fast as he talked. He also had the niftiest pair of legs since Sugar Ray Robinson. One day in February 1961, he showed up in Miami, where Ingemar Johansson was training for his third fight with Floyd Patterson. Could he spar a little? Cassius asked innocently, and proceeded to dance rings around Johansson. The big Swede went into a slow boil. "What does this kid do?" growled Johansson. "Ride a bicycle ten miles...
...Lockheed scientists tuned in on porpoises for a practical purpose: they wanted to study natural noises that might be of importance to antisubmarine warfare. With a string of 15 spar buoys-aluminum tubes weighted at one end so they floated upright with 12 ft. of their length underwater-they blocked the mouth of a Lower California lagoon. The buoys were set soft. apart, making a loose barrier across the channel; on the bottom near by, the scientists spotted two underwater microphones. Their hazard to navigation in place, the scientists retired to their research boat to wait for porpoises to swim...
...drop the planes from some routes. Items: ¶ A 295-m.p.h. limit was placed on cruising at the normal operational altitudes, 105 m.p.h. under the Eiectra's normal cruising speed, bringing it down to the speed of the older DC-ys. ¶ Immediate inspection of wing and fuselage spar for signs of structural damage. Each aircraft must be rechecked after it has been in severely turbulent air or made a hard landing...