Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...circles, climbing to 18,000 ft. Royal Air Force radar picked up the Hercules near Cherbourg, on the Normandy coast. Six chase planes went up in pursuit but lost radar contact almost instantly. Nearly an hour after his takeoff, Meyer called in to ask that he be put in touch with his wife by radiotelephone. The Air Force complied. "I am heading home," he told her. Then he radioed: "I'm having trouble with my automatic pilot. Leave me alone for five minutes. I'm having trouble." That was the last word anyone heard from the sergeant...
...elaborate battle plan involving National Guard and Army Reserve units to cope with violence. Cleveland police are ready to move decisively if the recent conviction and death sentence of Fred ("Ahmed") Evans-a black nationalist who led the fatal ambush of three policemen and a civilian last summer-should touch off rioting there...
...Lambeth Conference, the fellowship petitioned the church to reopen a 1937 inquiry into spiritualism undertaken under the auspices of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. Although the report was never officially published, it held that there were enough instances of inexplicable psychic events for Anglican clergymen to "keep in touch with groups of intelligent persons who believe in spiritualism." The fellowship also urged the addition of parapsychology to the curriculum of Anglican seminaries. In this way, the letter said, young clergymen would be able to provide more "adequate apologetic answers to the great problems of life and death...
With that kind of touch, the Chronicle's Hoppe (pronounced Hoppy) has needled his way into the top ranks of U.S. newspaper humorists. Although a shade less consistent than the Washington Post's Art Buchwald, Hoppe at his best is unbeatable. His special talent is to hold a mirror to life and let the reverse image reflect the absurdity of it all. Gentle and easygoing, Hoppe, 44, disarms his prey with kindness and smothers it with laughter...
...excellent coaching of Corey Wynn and Jack Barnaby. But probably the main reason for his squash success is determination, trite as it may seem. Ince really works at trying to improve. One of his teammates said that he didn't really have great finesse or a soft touch, but that he more than made up for it by running all over the court and returning almost every shot until his opponent blew it. Using this approach, Ince compiled an 8-2 record last winter. It'd be surprising if he isn't even better next year...