Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Injuries to starting players hurt the Crimson's chances against the Boston club. Back Parker Wise and Lloyd Macdonald both were out with inflamed knees. Wing-forward Dan Gleason and Captain Quent Spector were also sidelined from the game...
...money playing it safe. The planes themselves are built to such exacting standards that any big multiengined plane can easily climb away from the ground with one engine out, cruise on even less power, and land safely-as a Pan Am 707 did last year-with half a wing burned away. If private cars were serviced as intensely as commercial planes, each driver would need three full-time mechanics, and his auto would be fully inspected before every trip, however short. As for pilots, the airlines select only one applicant out of 20, spend $1,000 an hour to train...
...Conservatives' Ted Heath. The odds were on Wilson. Gone was the reputation as a slippery opportunist that had hurt him in the 1964 election. Instead, though operating with a bare three-seat majority, Wilson had proved to be an able statesman who could handle his own left wing, was not afraid to slap down raise-happy trade unions. In Parliament his acerbic wit and quick thrusts had continually kept the Opposition off-balance. Heath had no such advantages. He had taken over a badly divided party only eight months ago, and not entirely succeeded in closing the rifts...
...rousing chorus of The Red Flag. The new M.P.s are young (average age: 36), drawn mainly from the professions, and generally are pragmatists like Wilson. In fact, the moderate character of the new Labor M.P.s reduced the fears that a large majority would give the party's left wing strength to force Wilson into abandoning his support of the U.S. position in Viet...
...best remembered for her 1933 portrayal of Elizabeth Tudor in Maxwell Anderson's long-running Mary of Scotland, later suffered facial paralysis when nerves were accidentally severed during a 1949 mastoid operation, but went on to become nine-year president of the American Theater Wing, sponsor of the annual "Tony" awards; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...