Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...that Nixon, Ike, Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Cabot Lodge and Governor Nelson Rockefeller had joined in a massive last-minute effort to win New York. "We have all seen these circus elephants, complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins," said Kennedy, "who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them. Dick Nixon grabbed that tail in 1952 and 1956, but this year he faces the American people alone." In none of his sallies did Kennedy ever attack Dwight Eisenhower directly...
...Istanbul. The Archbishop of Canterbury plans to stay at Rome's stately Villa della Camilluccia, residence of Britain's Minister to the Holy See. To avoid any awkward moments, the Pope is expected to receive the Archbishop standing, instead of with the customary seated extension of his ring to be kissed. Except for an interpreter, the two bishops will be alone. What they talk about may be trivialities, Dr. Fisher admitted last week, but, he added, "Talking trivialities is in itself a portent of great significance. The pleasantries may be pleasantries about profundities...
...Into the Ring. In 1924, accompanying his father on a tour of what Loewe Sr. called "the only country left on this globe," Fritz landed in the U.S. He apparently failed to persuade the critics or himself that the piano was the only career for Fritz Loewe. But a concert life, he told himself, was just so much acrobatics anyway, while a steady job with an orchestra was "like being in a union"; he pawned his career for seven years of wildly miscellaneous jobs...
...Rockaway Beach a fight promoter admired his compact little build, put him in the ring, and he won eight bouts before the ninth opponent according to Fritz, it was Tony Canzoneri, later featherweight champion of the world knocked him out after three seconds of the first round. He taught riding at a resort in New Hampshire, worked as a mail rider packing the post into a gold mine near Cooke City, Mont. He played tinkly-tonk piano in little bins in Greenwich Village, Third Avenue bars, beer halls in Manhattan's German quarter. He took three weeks to learn...
...main arena building completely free from the interior columns that give present Garden fans a frequent crick in the neck. The new design by Soapman- Turned-Architect Charles Luckman will achieve its pillarless view by what he calls "the first use in such a large structure of a compression ring"-steel cables imbedded in concrete that support the roof. Onetime president of Lever Brothers Co. (1946-50), Luckman now employs 336 planners, architects and engineers, currently has $202 million worth of construction work under way from missile research centers to Los Angeles' new jet airport terminal...