Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years Gibbons had absorbed Hoffa's crudities in the interests of his handsome (about $30,000) salary and his secret hope, confirmed only to his closest associates, that one of Bobby Kennedy's lawsuits would stick, send Hoffa to jail, and place Teamster power in Gibbons' own hands. But after the most recent dressing-down by Hoffa, Gibbons took stock of anti-Hoffa senti ment on the 15-man general executive board, and seemed ready to go along with a demand for Hoffa's resignation by ten of the 15 board members, as reauired...
...While the used-elephant market has been seriously depressed by automation, a mahout-maintained model with buck et seat, two-tone umbrella and stick shift costs up to $1,500 f.o.b. Bangkok, or about $4,000 delivered at the Bronx Zoo. In Thailand, a U-Ride-It elephant is still a bargain at $2.50 a day (one-tenth as much as a rented truck), and is still hard to beat when it comes to bird watching, spraying treetops or hauling logs. But it is impossible to find pachyderm parking space in Bangkok. Shrugs a taxicab mahout: "Elephant too much fighting...
...Army Colonel James K. Chenault, whom they had kidnaped as an election publicity stunt. During Chenault's confinement, TIME Correspondent Mo Garcia was offered a secret interview with Chenault, met his F.A.L.N. source as agreed, standing outside a Caracas movie theater holding a newspaper and a swizzle stick. Garcia was led to a car; his eyes were taped, and he was driven to a hideout somewhere in Caracas. He found Chenault, blindfolded and dressed in light yellow pajamas. The colonel said he had received "reasonably good treatment," except that his captors, youths about 16 to 18 years old, continually...
When the Crimson tired of this strategy, they become a little fancier. One forward would shoot the puck directly onto a Bowdoin stick; then a second would skate up to the Bear and almost invariably succeed in grabbing he disc away. Puck control was no Bowdoin strong point either...
Coupe apparently became frustrated with his teammates' ineptness at three minutes of the final period. During a Crimson rush, he swung his stick at the head of Ike Ikauniks, who had the misfortune of hanging by the crease at the time. Ikauniks went down, but soon skated off the ice under his own power. A couple of stitches were taken in his right ear, and reports indicate that he'll recover quickly...