Word: spiking
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...most closely guarded secret was the composition of the royal party at the Royal Film Performance, an annual benefit glittering with stars and royals. This year it was announced that the Queen Mother, Princess Alexandra and her husband Angus Ogilvy would vie for attention with Michael York, Raquel Welch, Spike Milligan and Geraldine Chaplin at the London premiere of The Three Musketeers. But on that night they were all upstaged by a commoner. Accorded an unprecedented honor and ranked No. 4 on the official program was Lady Jane Wellesley, 22, currently ranked No. 1 among Prince Charles' belles...
Harvard's Joe Antenucci responded with two excellent point-winning blocks and a spike to the far corner to lift Harvard almost single-handedly into a 13-12 lead...
...teams traded points up to 10-10, when Paul Matthias came up with a fine spike and Steve Kay turned in two superlative blocks at the net to give Harvard a 13-10 lead...
...audience looked like leftovers from that famous last tango in Paris. But the scene was Manhattan's huge, tacky Roseland Ballroom, and the crowd was bebopping to '30s songs like Minnie the Moocher. The occasion: The Pointer Sisters' highly hooplaed New York debut, hard on the spike heels of their hit album, simply titled The Pointer Sisters. "We're not rhythm and blues or jazz. We're a new category−variety," declared Ruth, the oldest of the four daughters of an Oakland preacher. The quartet mixed jive talk with Lambert, Hendricks and Ross-like...
...times. Whether Bobby Riggs is one of history's greatest hustlers conning the world or just a fortunate zany defies a quick answer. He is probably a bit of both. For a guy who would not know Gloria Steinem if she tap-danced across his chest in spike heels, he has gone a long way with sexism. But a true hustler does not depend on luck, and Riggs was awfully lucky to fall into the right game at the right time. Five years ago these superheated matches could not have happened, and five years from now they would...