Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sides, the attack on amateur athletics continues. And the conclusion is rapidly becoming inescapable: the future of amateur sports in this country is exceedingly bleak...
...Symphony, under Sir Malcolm Sargent; Everest). A first stereo recording of one of the most ebullient, eccentric and delightful of Shostakovich's works. When the composer's orchestra-raucous, slapdash and happy-moves into battle, the effect is of a regiment under fluttering pennons posting to the attack...
...Thailand regime in 1947 (a second member, Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, still rules the country), who frequently consulted astrologists while enhancing his twin sources of Siamese power-at least 20 prosperous business ventures, a 40,000-man national police force more powerful than the army; of a heart attack; in exile in Geneva...
Died. Victor Emanuel, 62, a flamboyant operator from Dayton (AVCO, Republic Steel Corp.) and Government adviser (Aircraft Production Council, advisory committee of U.S. Senate Banking and Currency Committee), who liked to put knowledgeable Washingtonians, e.g., Presidential Crony George Allen, on his boards of directors; of a heart attack; in Ithaca, N.Y. The Depression wiped out a billion dollar utility empire, but Financier Emanuel bounced back as high as ever...
...Crichton, 64, writer and editor who once turned out social significance with his left hand (as an editor of the Communist New Masses under the name Robert Forsythe) and social insignificance (as an editor of Collier's under his own name) with his other hand; of a heart attack; in New York. A sponsor of literary pink teas during the '30s, Crichton's political sympathies were shattered by the Stalin-Hitler pact. Turning from somber Karl Marxism to zany Marx Brotherism, he biographed Groucho et al, along with other nonpoliticos such as Risë Stevens, Philadelphia Banker...