Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forward March, and for three days visiting former President Harry S. Truman, 79, kept Manhattan newsmen panting in his wake during those famous early-morning walkie-talkies. Never breaking his military 30-in., 120-per-min. stride, H.S.T. had something to say about practically everything. On tax cuts: "I am old fashioned. I believe you should pay in more than you spend." On desegregation: Alabama Governor Wallace "won't make it." Nonetheless, the civil rights march on Washington was "silly." The next morning Truman had a question of his own for a reporter: "Would you want your daughter...
Even the police are helpful: the sheriff will often send a deputy to wake a hunter at 4 a.m. if he forgets his alarm clock. The only sour face belongs to the game warden and to the occasional cattleman whose cow comes down with colic from eating shell casings. Bird fanciers, who in some states have gotten doves classified as "songbirds" and made them illegal to hunt, fail to darken the Imperial Valley dawn. Game managers have proved that the birds' talent for dodging, plus enthusiastic mating habits, keep the dove population constant, and there is no reason...
...TIME correspondents. Hugh Sidey has closely covered the President since senatorial days, and tells about it in John F. Kennedy, President-A Reporter's Inside Story (Atheneum, $6.95). Sidey is one of that "haughty elite," the regular White House correspondents: "When they move around the country in the wake of the President, they are ogled by girls, envied by local bank clerks, respected by college journalism students-in short, they are somebodies by association.'' But at other times, dashing across fields to catch up with a presidential party, Sidey wonders whether "strong legs are more...
...John Konrads when he posted the world record of 17:11 three years ago. Then Saari spotted Schollander's frenzied cheerleading out of the corner of his eye. His kick, which had been fluttering off at an angle, suddenly strengthened and began stirring up a furious wake. At 1,400 meters, he was 21 seconds ahead of Konrads' pace and, incredibly, getting stronger. By race's end he had gained three more seconds to finish in a roar of Japanese cheering...
...speed and grace are not all that set him apart from the rest of the trick skiers in the world. He has placed in his run the very difficult back-to-back 360 degree turns off the wake on both two and one skis. He has perfected another seldom-seen trick which he might use in the Nationals this coming week-end to run his total for that tournament up to 3795. That very difficult maneuver is the 360 turn off the wake with the bar held...