Word: tossings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Super Bowl.* The ceremony was limited to the President and the Vice President and 95 guests: family and friends, the Cabinet, Congressional leaders and the President's closest aides. For the first time ever, news cameras were allowed to record the scene. Later in the day, Reagan arranged to toss the coin before Super Bowl XIX, an officiation beamed from the White House to Stanford Stadium in California and some 120 million sports fans viewing at home...
That was only the first telegenic touch. The ceremonies were scripted down to the last detail with Reagan's favorite electronic medium in mind. He booked himself into televised appearances at no fewer than six events, including a presidential coin toss before the start of Sunday's Super Bowl game. He even gave permission last week for a TV camera to be installed in the presidential limousine, so that his ride to the swearing-in at the West Front of the Capitol could be seen by viewers at home...
...unconventional approach has served Feynman splendidly. The work that led to a Nobel Prize in 1965 had begun some years earlier while he was watching someone toss a plate. He noticed that the spin of the dish seemed much faster than the rate of its wobble. The observation led to some playful calculations, idle musings about electron orbits and, finally, basic theories of quantum electrodynamics...
...Toss in Harvard defenseman Randy Taylor, and the schools boast the league's seven highest scorers and eight...
Although Keffer's shot dropped through with only six seconds to play, the game was not decided until ten minutes after the heart-stopping toss...