Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...people in that Broadway audience last week, no one seemed to be having a better time than the man in third row center: John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Luckily, Jack Kennedy can laugh at jokes about himself, his family and his religion-for such jokes were the U.S. rage last week. Among them: CJ Directions for making a "Kennedy quarter": take an ordinary 25? piece and some red fingernail polish or red crayon. Color George Washington's head down almost to the ear. Also color the lower part of Washington's neck, down to the coin...
...hero (James Darren) starts life with prospects that are not, to put it mildly, brilliant. He is the illegitimate son of a convicted killer and B-Girl Winters, who is hooked by-and sleeping with-a dope peddler (Ricardo Montalban). He grows up on Skid Row, where his playmates are rumblebums and his self-appointed guardians are a germy old barfly (Burl Ives), a good-natured prostitute (Jeanne Cooper), a slugnutty prizefighter (Rudolph Acosta), a junk-jabbing ginmill canary (Ella Fitzgerald) and a legless newsboy (Walter Burke) who packs a pretty little...
...Cadets had defeated Brown, Yale, and Princeton in three games prior to last weekend. Last year's 16-6 West Point sextet won its last six games in a row to start the victory skein that the Crimson halted...
Wait & See. The next warming bit of news amid the chill was a rise in construction contracts awarded in October (see below). They topped the year before by 6%, the third monthly rise in a row, and set a new record for that month. Housing starts in October rose from September to 109,900, although they continued to trail last year. Said George Cline Smith, vice president and chief economist of F. W. Dodge Corp.: "This activity will help to ensure that the current business dip will be quite mild and of short duration, since construction is the nation...
...varsity started out as if it were going to duplicate last year's 84-34 romp. After 10 minutes, Deering's second basket in a row put the count at Harvard 15, M.I.T. 8. But the varsity began falling all over itself, and the Engineers led at halftime, 25 to 23. The lead see-sawed back and forth until there were four minutes to play...