Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scene: a jazz club anywhere. Starting with Coin' Out of My Head, Wes's pop-jazz albums have brought a huge, diverse new audience thronging to his in-person appearances. For a solid nine months, one or the other of his recordings has held the No. 1 spot in Billboard's bestseller chart of jazz LPs. This week A Day in the Life, which has sold a whopping 250,000 copies, is at the top of the chart for the 32nd consecutive week...
...Spot" Strategy. This theory is that you seize and secure an area and then move out from that area, securing ever increasing concentric circles of terrain until the entire country is secure. Unless we had a massive infusion of new troops, such a strategy would take many years and become in effect an enclave strategy, with all of its disadvantages, while the rooting-out process was going on. The military initiative would be largely lost...
...fact that he refers to himself throughout in the third person. The reader first meets him in his Brook lyn Heights apartment, picking up a ringing telephone as if it were a pistol loaded for Russian Roulette. "On impulse, thereby sharpening his instinct as a gambler, he took spot plunges: once in a while he would pick up his own phone. On this morning in September, 1967, he lost his bet." The caller is a militant antiwar organizer and old Harvard classmate, who extracts from Mailer a promise to participate in the Washington protests and thus give up a valuable...
Terry Oxford climaxed his undefeated season with an exhausting 8-6, 2-6, 6-2 win over Yale's Bill Keeton at the number five spot. It was typical Oxford triumph, as the Harvard junior wore his opponent down and then smashed him in the third...
Today's lineup finds captain Bo Keefe (7-3 record) in the number one spot; Bruce LoPucki (8-3) at two; Tommy Wynne, three; Yank Heisler, four; Jack Purdy, five; Paul Oldfield, six; and Joe Tibbetts, seven...