61.   It was the first papal encounter with an Iranian head of state since the days of the Shah.

62.   It was her first encounter with death.

63.   It was the first face-to-face encounter between the dueling pranksters.

64.   It was the first major encounter between American soldiers and the Viet Cong, and the Americans came close to being massacred.

65.   Jake is a good-hearted guy who has a tendency to turn shy and tongue-tied around women, as he demonstrated in that first encounter with Maggie.

66.   Just as few military strategies survive contact with the enemy, even the most beautiful scientific ideas have a distressing tendency to collapse on their first encounter with experiment.

67.   Larry Johnson has a vivid memory of his first encounter with Kurt Thomas.

68.   Later that evening, the two had their first sexual encounter.

69.   Lennox Lewis sat at a dais in a casino ballroom before hundreds of reporters and photographers on Wednesday and reminisced about his first encounter with Mike Tyson.

70.   Larry Johnson had heard what Scottie Pippen said about the Knicks after their first encounter this season.