Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Albania. Premier Mehmet Shehu (pronounced Shay-who) is a 47-year-old soldier who won his military spurs in the Red-led Garibaldi Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, got his final polishing at Moscow's Voroshilov Military Academy. The son of a mullah, Shehu is the only satellite leader who speaks English, which he learned during childhood studies at Tirana's American Vocational School. Despite his soft speech and crisp good grooming, Shehu is known as the "Butcher of Albania" for his bloody suppression of anti-Communists as boss of Albania's secret police...
...steady date, tense and tormented Sprinter Ray Norton. "There's not a nerve in her body," said Ed Temple, her college coach, who also handled the U.S. women's team in Rome. "She's almost lazy. She often goes to sleep between the semifinal and final runs. Then she gets over those starting blocks and-boom-all that harnessed energy explodes into speed...
...Walk, Walk, Walk." Coming into the homestretch, Yang fought to gulp down air, and began his final bid for a gold medal. His lead grew to a foot, two feet, a meter. Inch by inch, Johnson somehow gained it back. Then, with only meters to go, Johnson's legs went dead. Momentum alone carried him to the finish line a bare 1.2 sec. slower than Yang's time of 4:48.5 That was close enough: the race of his career had won Johnson the gold medal by the Olympic record score of 8,392 to Yang...
During the final playoff, Dobrzynski floundered badly in a Borodin selection and got lost in Die Fledermaus. When it was Jorgensen's turn, he moved to the podium with the same puzzling grin and waved the orchestra through both pieces without a flaw. During the last test selection-a tricky, untitled tone poem composed by Judge Bigot to tax contestants-Jorgensen drove the orchestra through the score so fast that the string section was glazed with perspiration at the finish. He won first prize hands down. For all his clowning, he had proved himself, in the words of Judge...
...Last Temptation of Christ, by Nikos Kazantzakis. The late great Greek writer saw God as the search for God. Temptation is his soaring, shocking final vision of that search...