Word: tandem
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Have you heard the one about the dog with a bucket of hot water who chased two people riding on a tandem bicycle? Do you know why Lucky Pierre is a sui generis joke in English-language humor, or why the gag whose punchline is "Don't make any waves" is one of America's favorites...
This year Ford's rebuilding claims don't pack quite the punch they did a year ago. He has returning on defense a tandem of All-Ivies in co-captains Ralph Booth and Geoff Hargadon. Joining the fullback defense today will be Kevin Jiggets a big fast back who looks tough to beat...
...involved in the Apollo-Soyuz orbital linkup involves a new challenge. As Timothy James, who edited our cover story, puts it: "Apollo-Soyuz is an example of former enemies cooperating to achieve something that could benefit both sides." Indeed, the spectacle of Soviet and American space scientists working in tandem would have astonished our 1952 cover writer who reported that "the cold war has thrown a blackout over all rocket research. Not one man on earth who knows the latest developments can talk freely about them." Correspondents covering Apollo-Soyuz found the Soviets still obsessed by secrecy, but they...
...contingent of 26 Harvard and Yale thinclads touched down in London's airport yesterday and made their way through the London fog to stand Cambridge University. The trackers will compete tomorrow against an Oxford. Cambridge tandem at Iffley Road Track in Oxford, in the 25th running of the meet...
Moscow fears that a Soviet-sponsored Geneva Conference might be derided as a Soviet failure if it collapsed. Thus the U.S.S.R. is willing to let what it calls "bilateral separate deals," meaning resumption of Egyptian-Israeli talks under U.S. aegis, continue in tandem with Geneva discussions. So far Washington seems uncertain about what will emerge from President Ford's double summit-with Sadat in Salzburg and ten days later in Washington with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin...