Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June day in 1953 Ray Cahill, a $75-a-week brakeman for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, was sent out to flag traffic along a stretch of track that runs down the middle of busy U.S. Route 1 in New Haven, Conn. Out of the traffic line lurched a truck. It pinned Brakeman Cahill against a railroad car, crushing his back. At that moment began a legal trail that twisted and turned until, last week, it became a national issue...
...look shabby. An impressive low-cost housing program in San Juan has built 20,000 units. Private building has kept pace. Television antennas forest the roofs of the dwindling slums, and Governor Luis MunÕz Marin this week inaugurates an island-wide TV hookup. Wide boulevards and superhighways stretch out from the capital...
Down the back stretch, Needles was still lost in the pack while Fabius, a speed horse, was opening a great gap on the fast track. The chalk players could barely see through their tears. But Jockey Erb did not get flustered. His mount was moving nicely and he saved ground, waited until they reached the stretch turn before he asked the big question. Then, for a terrible second, Needles seemed to spit the bit out once more. Erb cracked the whip in his ear to get his mind on his work. Needles got the idea...
Head & Head. Terrang had folded, but Fabius was still far in front. Now Needles got his big break. As horses came back to him in the stretch, the field spread out before him and he had all the running room he needed. His late speed was astonishing. He rushed up to Fabius who held on gamely, head and head, for a few strides and then faded. Needles whisked under the wire, winner by three-quarters of a length in the richest ($123,450) Kentucky Derby ever...
Temporarily sprung from the Lewisburg, Pa. federal pen to testify before the Senate's Internal Security subcommittee, Atom Spies Harry Gold (doing a 30-year stretch) and David Greenglass (15 years) provided some intriguing marginal notes to the history of U.S. treason. Admitting that the Russians had done "a superb psychological job" on him, onetime Philadelphia Chemist Gold, 45, drew snickers in the Washington hearing room when he debunked the "trash" written to explain why he turned traitor. Said he of one theory: "I haven't been uniformly successful in love, but I didn't get into...