Word: speared
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...from The Swan were a fire-sale bargain at $150 and less, but another nameless fan had to go to $15,000 for Judy Garland's red slippers from Oz. As the bidding spiraled around him, Actor Jack Cassidy said, "I'll be lucky to get a spear from Ben-Hur." As it turned out, he didn't even get that...
Richie Szaro and Frank Champi switched places from their Dartmouth meet performances as Szaro won the javelin throw with a heave of 214'4". Champi was second, chucking the spear 204'3", Gerry Hevern and Jake Driscoll took third and fifth respectively in the shot...
...while they were riding on a highway south of Bel Air, Md. The dead were Ralph Featherstone, 30, and William ("Che") Payne, 26. Featherstone, a former speech therapist, was well known as a civil rights field organizer and, more recently, as manager of the Afro-American bookstore, the Drum & Spear, in Washington. Both were friends of H. Rap Brown, whose trial on charges of arson and incitement to riot was scheduled to begin last week in Bel Air. Reconstruction of the car's speedometer indicates it was traveling about 55 miles an hour when it blew...
...Spear-Carrying Bushmen. Small wonder that the camera safari has become so popular. A number of U.S. tour firms are now packaging and promoting all-expense camera safaris, and about 20,000 American tourists will go on safari this year in the East African nations of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, staying an average of 21 days and spending $650 (exclusive of air fare) on the trip. Not only are the economics attractive, the experience is mind-boggling -because everything in East Africa seems to be a superlative...
Corey Wyna, Harvard's freshman squash coach, was flipping through a pile of (??) papers on a table in the coach's room in Hemenway Gym, trying to spear bits of information about an upcoming opponent...