Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foil event, a fencer scores when the tip of his foil touches the metallic vest worn by his opponent. In the sabre one scores with a touch to any part of the body above the hips. Epee fencers are awarded a point by touching any part of the body with their weapon...
...smiling radiantly-the glowing, cover-girl smile remembered from the days before her troubles all began. To celebrate the occasion, she was stylishly dressed in gaucho pants, a dark, pin-stripe vest and a white blouse, and she was ebullient when she made a brief and jaunty appearance in San Francisco before the newsmen-some of whom applauded-who had covered her story for so long. "It would feel a lot better if I were home right now," she said. Moments later, that was precisely where she was headed. After 14 months in jail, Patty Hearst, 22, was released last...
...ease with correspondents. After a long day, he sometimes strolls-in his stocking feet-to the back of his jet to chat with the reporters stowed there. Earlier this month, he walked jauntily down the aisle with a copy of a Harris poll stuck ostentatiously in his dark blue vest. "Poll? What poll?" he asked with elaborate innocence, obviously delighted that the voters surveyed by Harris preferred him over Dole, 48% to 36%. Even in the South, where Mondale's liberal record had been expected to be an albatross, he outrated Dole...
...plus room and board) to try Gallwey's most eminent competition. By California standards, it is just down the road, at Coto de Caza near Laguna Beach, a 5,000-acre mission-cum-tennis college presided over by Vic Braden, 47. Though Braden bears a faint resemblance to a vest-pocket Buddha and has a graduate degree in psychology, his methods epitomize two current hopes of Western civilization?a sense of humor and trust in technology...
GREEN THOUGHTS. Air conditioning is the second-best weapon against the equatorial heat of the city. The best is a walk on the mild side-in the vest-pocket parks (among the most refreshing: Paley Park, a few steps east of Fifth Ave. at 53rd St.; Greenacre Park, 212 E. 51st St.; McGraw Hill Park, 48th St. west of Sixth Ave.), ambling across the footpaths of the 59th Street, Triboro and Brooklyn bridges, or riding one of the shaky, alpine cable cars that wobble across the length of the Bronx...