Word: bad
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Dispensing gold coins and handing out $200 tips, Emperor Haile Selassie was enjoying himself in imperial fashion on a state visit to Brazil when a ham radio operator in Addis Ababa flashed the bad news. "Calling everybody, calling everybody! Ethiopia is in a critical state following a coup d'état." Glumly, the Emperor lunched in his Sāo Paulo hotel room on lobster thermidor, stared out the window and pondered the unkindest cut of all. The revolt had apparently been led by his own son and heir, Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, 44. By that night the Lion...
...Good Bad Luck. Over the years Jenkins has cloaked his operations in such secrecy that an intriguing mixture of fact and legend has grown up around his empire building. Born May 18, 1878 in Shelbyville, Tenn., Jenkins showed up in Aguascalientes, Mexico in 1901, dead broke. He took a job as a railway mechanic for 50? a day. In 1906, a U.S. missionary group staked him to enough capital to launch an itinerant haberdashery business...
...wanderings carried him to Puebla, where he went into small businesses (grain brokerage, real estate) and became the U.S. consular agent in the chaotic days following the 1910 revolution. His financial talents were frustrated by a shortage of funds until he had a fortunate stroke of bad luck. In 1920 Jenkins was kidnaped by General Manuel Peláez, one of the bandit enemies of then-President Venustiano Carranza, and held for $25,000 ransom. Rather than offend the intervention-prone U.S., Carranza paid off- and through an unlikely stroke of generosity on General Pelÿez' part, Jenkins...
...been stirring up one of the biggest flaps in Australian tennis history by berating officials, swearing on court, hitting balls into the stands, and even heaving their rackets at spectators. Snapped Australian Tennis Boss Norman Strange: "Disgusting. In 36 years of tennis I have never seen anything so bad as their court behavior." Another official suggested that the young Americans, particularly Buchholz, needed "a swift kick in the pants." After Sirola's win, the Australian press gleefully reported that the Americans blew off steam in their dressing room by knocking a couple of holes in the wall. Later they...
...York. "I can't spend but about $100 recruiting," says McGuire. "So when I go home summers I blow the whole hundred on lunches. I never even try to get a boy who's all-city or anything like that. I look for good boys on bad teams. I like to get boys from poor families, or maybe boys who had to quit school. I want 'em hungry, but not mean. They come down here without seeing the campus-they might not come if they saw it first...