Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Joining in the essay honors were two four-man units from the Law School: Campbell-McCarty-Rosenberg-Wolfe of 2L, and Webb-Passman-Lovett-Zwick...
Trend to Layoffs. NASA Administrator James Webb has asked Congress to authorize a corresponding series of U.S. shots. He has proposed rescheduling a modified 1971 Mariner shot to Mars, now scrapped because of the lack of funds, and following it with five additional Mariner-type flights to Mars and Venus by 1976. In addition, he has asked for the revival of a relatively modest Voyager program that would place two sophisticated craft in orbit around Mars in 1973 and send two additional orbiters and two soft-landers to the same planet aboard a single Saturn 5 rocket in 1975. Time...
Without claiming his handicap, Hope has beaten Ben Hogan over nine holes, has tied Arnold Palmer. Once, he took $1,800 from Sportsman-Builder Del Webb, who now says, belatedly: "When you play with Hope, keep your hand on your wallet." Dolores Hope, a 13-handicap golfer herself, says she won't play with Bob again until he pays her the dollar she won in their last game; Bob just grumps. Jackie Gleason says that "Bob's only departure from sanity is his insistence that he can beat...
...Japanese and 4,189 American Marines died in early 1945, is a craggy archipelago of little modern-day strategic value, though it is just 700 miles southeast of Japan. Originally settled by 19th century seamen, including two New Englanders (many islanders still bear such old American names as Savory, Webb and Robinson), the islands are currently used by the U.S. only for a small naval and weather station, whose total complement is no more than...
...probing sketch of Dorsey, Simon provides little that is fresh on such familiar figures as Miller, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington, but he gives appropriate recognition to some of the brilliant though now largely forgotten ensembles of the period: the sizzling band headed by tiny, hunchbacked Drummer Chick Webb, featuring Ella Fitzgerald, which triumphed at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom in a 1937 battle of the bands with Goodman's group; the lush, colorfully textured Claude Thornhill band; the showmanlike Jimmie Lunceford unit, whose buoyant two-beat style influenced such latter-day bands as Billy...