Word: swing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like the steel racket, "the Smasher," as Spalding calls it, is open-throated to cut wind resistance, increase the speed and power of a player's swing. Unlike the T2000, which has its strings attached to a crown inside the frame, the aluminum racket is strung conventionally, through nylon-lined holes in the racket's head. This increases the size of the "sweet spot," the area of the racket face on which the ball can be hit with good effect, and makes the racket less likely to spin or twist on shots hit near...
BOBBY HUTCHERSON: STICKUP! (Blue Note). West Coast Vibraphonist Hutcherson gets right in the swing with a tasteful crowd of young modernists. Featuring the flexible tenor inventions of Joe Henderson and the thoughtful suspensions of Pianist McCoy Tyner, the quintet favors an ambiance of melodic continuity set to disciplined rhythmics. The finest chapter of their musical book is in Verse, a rubato theme that moves into a flowing waltz tempo. Edging into the avant-garde on 8-4 Beat and Black Circle, the instrumentalists whirl gracefully around some unexpected chords. On the quiet ballad Summer Nights, vibes and piano trace shimmering...
...bombing mission in North Viet Nam's panhandle. Suddenly, something went wrong, and the U.S.'s most advanced warplane crashed somewhere in the dense jungle of Thailand or western Laos. It was the third F-111 crash since a squadron of six of the $6,000,000 swing-wings made their combat debut in Viet Nam less than a month...
Ecstatic Squeals. Kennedy is well enough aware of this side of his image and takes it with a fatalism that is brightened by the passion of his partisans. Last week, during a seven-state campaign swing from Indiana to California, Bobby-who has been depilating so steadily that he may soon look like a Marine boot-deliberately courted more mature audiences than the screaming bobby-hoppers that so often greet him. But age made little difference. Visiting an electronics plant near Portland, Ore., Kennedy encountered the same ecstatic squeals-from middle-aged women. Oddly enough, it was at the University...
...going to do anything to undercut him." Yet Nixon made it clear that division within the Democratic Party is one of his strongest weapons. Flying on to Michigan, where he conferred with Governor George Romney (but came away without an endorsement), Nixon began a nine-day swing through the Middle West and the Mountain States. En route he hammered away at the message that shapes up as his major campaign theme: "A divided Democratic Party cannot unite a divided country; a united Republican Party...