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...might be the kid who is a brother of one of the players or son of an alumnus or just a local guy, who runs onto the field to get a chin strap, or collects broken hockey sticks or just wants to be near a seeming athletic hero...
When he got to the starting gate, one of the officials looked at Gordon's skis and said, "Wait a minute." Adler had no safety strap. Last year that wouldn't have mattered, but the rules had been changed this year. Gordon told the officials that someone had told him it was OK down at the base lodge. No soap, said the starters. An altruist from New England College said, "Here, take mine." and Gordon started madly attaching the straps to his bindings. Just as he got to the gate, the starters said, "Number 15, in the gate." Gordon said...
When King said, "I don't care if you show up in a jock strap," Riggs had pictures made of himself clad only in a supporter. If it has contributed nothing substantial to the history of sexism in the '70s, the Riggs-King repartee has at least lent some much-needed humor. Billie Jean cannot resist getting into the spirit occasionally. She calls him "Roberta" and mocks his duck-footed waddle. "I'm pigeon-toed," she says, "so maybe this match should be billed as the duck v. the pigeon...
...cloud-covered earth. The makeshift sunshade, erected by the astronauts after the loss of the original shielding during launch, and the single surviving solar wing on the orbital workshop section are clearly visible. The photographs also offer a close-up view of the damaged equipment, including the pesky aluminum strap from the lost shielding that kept the solar wing locked in place until the astronauts freed it during a space walk. These frames should be particularly valuable to space-agency technicians as they prepare for a second Skylab crew to board the $293 million station for the late-July start...
...public since the cultural revolution. Heads snapped, therefore, when Chiang Ching, who is also Mrs. Mao Tse-tung and No. 3 in the Politburo, appeared at the floodlit Sino-U.S. basketball game in Peking wearing a well-tailored gray midi with white sandals and a white shoulder-strap bag. The Americans won 89 to 59. But Mrs. Mao, dazzling in her nonuniform and seated next to American Envoy David Bruce, had scored the most points...