Word: stan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...repossess cars work was extremely informative - probably too informative. How many people actually know how to break into a car? If I lived in Houston I wouldn't appreciate your letting everyone know when the best times are to "repo" or rip off cars. Stan W. Unruh Santa Ana, Calif...
...DIED. Stan Kenton, 67, patriarch of progressive jazz; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. When Kenton crashed onto the West Coast jazz scene in 1941, his fortissimo "walls of brass" sound struck some critics as "sheer noise," but his popularity endured long after the demise of swing. He helped introduce Afro-Cuban rhythms to U.S. pop, invented the mellophonium, a trumpet-French horn hybrid, and wed classical music with jazz both in his own dissonant compositions (Artistry in Rhythm) and in unorthodox interpretations of Wagner and Ravel...
...turned 18. In only his third competition outside high school meets, the gracious, unassuming Willingboro, N.J., athlete won a gold medal for his leg in the 800-meter relay and a bronze in his specialty, the long jump. Lewis was disappointed with third place in the long jump, but Stan Vinson, 27, who won gold medals in the 400-meter dash and 1,600-meter relay, looked ahead: "I think he'll jump 29 ft. before he's 20 the way he's going." Bob Beamon's 1968 world record...
...learn a little Soviet-style comradeliness if they hope to fare well next summer. "It's pretty cutthroat back home-you've got no friends when the gun goes off-but in Russia next year, we are going to have to put all of that aside," said Stan Vinson. "We aren't just running against other athletes, we're running against a system. And nobody is going to look...
...Stadium flashed word that Edwin Moses of the U.S., the world's best in the event, would be wearing No. 825 and running in Lane 2. Trouble was Moses was at a track meet in Italy. The real No. 825, who belly-flopped at the last hurdle ,was Stan Vinson, an American middle-distance runner competing in the hurdles for the first time...