Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble with Milton Shapp," Pennsylvania's Democratic Chief David Lawrence was once heard to grumble, "is that he wants to start at the top." What Milton wants, Democratic panjandrums learned to their dismay last week, Milton gets. With the money, smooth organization and stubborn resolve to achieve his aim, Democrat Shapp shellacked his party's machine-backed gubernatorial nominee by al most 50,000 votes...
...Santa Eulalia Cathedral, shunning the tiresome platitudes that his audience was so accustomed to. "I promise you," Monsignor González said with feeling and warmth, "that I will learn Catalán to understand better and to be understood. I will love it-and you." It was a start...
...requires only a student license to fly, and many beginners start by "kiting"-being dragged behind a car on a long cable while they gently try takeoffs and maneuvering. "There's almost no danger in this sport," maintains Ken Brock, founder of the Southern California chapter. "Most airplane crashes occur on takeoff or landing. But with gyrocopters you go only 20 to 30 m.p.h. on takeoff, and land at about zero to 5 m.p.h...
...Kauai King a run was a 4-1 shot named Stupendous. It was quite a tussle while it lasted. Overtaking Kauai King's early lead, Stupendous surged ahead in the backstretch, at one point opened a four-length gap. Not until he entered the homestretch did Kauai King start to come on. Responding to the sting of Brumfield's bat, his tongue lolling out of his mouth, he finished with a fantastic burst that carried him to a 1¾-length victory. Time: 1 min. 55 2/5 sec., second-fastest clocking since the Preakness was lengthened...
...abstract. His columns are almost always tied to current events. He will sometimes call a dozen people to produce a single sentence. And facing a 7 p.m. deadline, he often does not sit down at his typewriter until 4. Late one afternoon, when asked when he was going to start writing. Reston replied that he wasn't an intellectual and did not need to sit around thinking. He was waiting, he said, turning back to the ticker, to see what the news...