Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from bridling at unrelieved disaster, the fans have opened their hearts in sympathy. At the ballpark, the crowds have evaporated, to be sure-attendance is down some 281,000 from last season-but why pay $2.25 to witness a foregone conclusion? On the other hand, the Phillies' losing trail has been strewn with heartfelt messages of encouragement from as far off as Puerto Rico and Hawaii. "Hang in there and fight," read one. "We have faith that you'll shake this thing yet," read another. Wading last week through a pile of such pep-talk mail. Manager Mauch...
...minutes last week, Cape Canaveral was treated to one of the most spectacular displays of rocketry in its 11-year space-age history. Splashing a white, blue and orange vapor trail across the radiant dawn sky, a 100-ft.-tall Atlas-Agena rocket lifted in stately perfection off the pad, thundered up on a mission that was to carry its payload 685,000 miles into interplanetary space...
...possible "contributions to Marxist-Leninism" go completely ignored. Unlike the declaration put together at last fall's 81-nation Communist Party parley, where the Russians had to compromise with Red China, this time there was little mention of "separate roads to socialism." Says the Moscow program: "The main trail of socialism has been blazed . . . sooner or later all peoples will follow...
Arthur Garfield Dove owed his given names to the Republican presidential ticket* of 1880, the year he was born in Upstate New York. But he owed nothing to their plodding example, for Dove was a trail blazer. Long before fashions changed. Dove pointed-and painted-toward abstract expressionism. After a start as a successful magazine illustrator, he turned to illustrating inner vision rather than outer void. Wrote Humorist Bert L. Taylor of Dove...
Died. Jesse C. Harper, 77, trail-blazing former Notre Dame Football coach, whose 1913 team, led by Knute Rockne, broke football open by routing Army 35-13 with the game's first all-out passing attack; near Ashland, Kansas...