Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King Kong, Dinner at Eight and A Star Is Born. And for ten years running, movie exhibitors ranked him No. 1 producer of box-office successes. But even as death came to Selznick last week at the age of 63, he was still most famed for Gone With the Wind, the film that dominated conversation for three years before the cameras ever began to roll, cost the then astronomic sum of $4,250,000, ran an unprecedented 3 hr. 45 min., and has to date made $60 million...
...Navy: the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championship, by one-half length over favored Cornell; on Onondaga Lake in Syracuse. Bucking a 12-m.p.h. head wind, the fast-stroking (36 strokes per minute) Middies pulled into an early lead in the 15-boat field, fought off a strong challenge by Cornell in the last 150 yds. to win the three-mile race...
...hell of it, let out a loud "Yahoo!" Before the hungry, thirsty astronauts had a chance to eat or drink anything, doctors whisked them down to sick bay for the first of a series of intensive medical tests that will continue for weeks. "I knew we'd wind up in a hospital," quipped McDivitt...
...stamp is clearly visible on the 83rd Detachment at Saigon's Tanson-hut airbase. Like their commander, the 83rd's pilots wear black flying suits with purple scarves. They call themselves Than Phong ("divine wind," the translation of the Japanese "kamikaze" of World War II). Boss of the 83rd is Hanoi-born Major Luu Kim Cuong, at 32 a 13-year veteran of Viet Nam's long war, and a confidant of Ky's. Cuong has logged more than 8,500 flying hours, taught himself to fly the Skyraider in a mere three days. He flew...
...invade it unless prohibited by some specific constitutional provision." Finding no such specific covering privacy, Black, who is often accused of scorning "judicial restraint," proceeded to rake his brethren for imposing their subjective feelings on a legislature. Should the court continue this "shocking doctrine," said Black, it will wind up as "a day-today constitutional convention...