Word: tow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There will be tow significant, firsts at Ithaca this afternoon. Cornell will be the first team to score more than two touchdowns against the Crimson defense in 26 games, and Harvard will win its first game at Ithaca since...
...Excuse me, sir," drools a red-faced drunk with stringy-haired girl in tow. "We're conducting an on-the-street interview here--would you like to say a few words?" he asks, holding out a half-empty Schlitz microphone. We're alive, we're alive." Boston is dead...
...observers-ranging in political coloration from liberal Democratic Governors to conservative Republican Senators-reported back to President Johnson that the election victory of Lieut. General Nguyen Van Thieu (see cover story) seemed fair. To be sure, the observers could not be everywhere, and in most cases were taken in tow by Vietnamese officials. "We could all possibly have been bamboozled," allowed New Jersey's Democratic Governor Richard J. Hughes, "but it would have taken a minimum of 25,000 character actors and about 11,000 stagehands to put on the production we have seen...
...race, hoping opponents will overtax their engines trying to catch him. He is also an innovator; he invented the dangerous art of "drafting"-keeping his car practically on top of an opponent's rear bumper, using the partial vacuum created by the other car as a tow, thus conserving his own engine and fuel. Unlike many drivers, who make a fetish of braking and shifting at precisely the same points each time around a track. Petty varies his routine: "I drive by feel," he says. "Sometimes I'll go into a corner a full car length farther than...
...Committee gave President Johnson a much needed legislative victory. Not only did it give him more than double (to $537 million) the sum that the House had reluctantly voted for the model-cities program; it also approved his $40 million request for rent subsidies, which had been killed in tow by the House. Though both measures must still be approved by the full Senate, there is a good chance that both will emerge intact for a fifty-fifty compromise with the House...