Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Tufts never crossed midfield in the second half. After receiving the kick, the visitors failed to make the yardage on a fourth and one situation, and Hatch collected his second touchdown of the day on a pair of 15-yard runs...
...Kennedy (and Senator Frank Lausche, habitually a loner, hastened to climb on the bandwagon). Roaring through Democratic Dixie, Nixon drew an astounding throng of 70,000 in Memphis. In their first joint television appearance, the two men seemed as evenly matched-though differing in style and pace-as a pair of Tiffany cuff links. Among independents and waverers, however, who had not felt the magic of personal contact, there remain lingering doubts and misgivings about both candidates. The candidates, with much more traveling ahead, and much more television, will do what they can to resolve doubts and arouse enthusiasm...
PITCHING. The Pirates have the requisite pair of strong men to start as many as five of the possible seven games: Mormon Elder Vernon Law (20-9), who has glacial calm and a fast slider...
...Just a Pair. Mme. Vuillier cares so little about the looks of her horses that she seldom visits the stables, almost never goes to a race. Her system of producing a winner begins and ends with a theory of breeding developed by her husband, Colonel Jean-Joseph Vuillier, who ran the Khan stables from 1927 until his death in 1931. The colonel found that hundreds of winning thoroughbreds carried in their veins certain fixed proportions of blood derived from a handful of great horses of the late 19th century. What was more, Vuillier traced the pedigrees of 654 winners back...
...will produce a winner. Says she: "Call me, if you will, a 'mixer of cocktails.' " She avoids the common practice of inbreeding her own horses on the ground that it weakens the strain. She often mates two glue-footed platers "We're just looking for a pair of horses with the right traits that will dominate m the offspring," she explains. "The chance of producing a winner from two outstanding horses is smaller than if one of the parents is great. Two pluses don't always yield a plus in horse breeding...