Word: striped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbia; so do her 11-ft. 10-in. beam and her 70 ft. of overall length. The yacht's decks are of Canadian cedar, overlaid with waterproof blue fiber glass. Her hull is of Honduras mahogany, covered with six coats of white paint, decorated with a thin gold stripe and the five stars of the Southern Cross. Her sails, tailored from light blue Dacron, range in weight from ¼ oz. per sq. yd. (for the spinnakers) to 6 oz. per sq. yd. (for the mainsail...
...enough to give a motorcycle cop ulcers. On the slick asphalt pavement, the cut-down, exhaust-blatting hot rods stood poised for takeoff. Hunched over steering wheels, leather-masked drivers squinted through their goggles as the crowd shouted: "Stripe it, Chevy!" "Twist him off!" At the signal, the cars roared away-but not to the wail of a police siren. In Pomona, Calif., last week, the country's foremost hot-rodders were holding their Winternational Drag Racing championships before 39,000 cheering auto buffs...
...zone and Communist territory. A group of 20 American military men and civilians got out and waited. Five minutes later, other cars approached the bridge from the Communist side. Their occupants emerged and stood talking. Finally, two men detached themselves from the opposing groups and walked across the white stripe, in the center of the bridge, that marks the boundary between West and East. Thus. last week, was effected the exchange of a pair of convicted cold war spies: American Francis Gary Powers, 32, the U-2 pilot who crashed in Russia in 1960 and was sentenced to ten years...
...frontier. On balance, the new writers seem to have concluded that there is nothing very much there. 2) The fires of radicalism have grown cold. Thirty years ago, the little magazines were militantly leftist as a matter of course; today nothing is of less concern than politics of any stripe. The bohemian revolutionary, like the collegiate John Reed Club, seems to have died with World...
...Brokensha on the vibes, and Cannonball Adderley, the meanest alto sax this side of Basin Street. The cats in the crowd yowled for all of them. But they also cheered for a bulky banjo player, clad in a cleric's cassock, who sat in the midst of a stripe-blazered combo and lined out Bill Bailey and Paddlin' Madeleine Home with minstrel zest and skill. This improbable jazz musician was Father John Joseph Dustin. 45, a Redemptorist priest, who has been strumming the banjo for 36 years...