Word: soccer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...millions of dollars for choice concessions. Providing services and equipment to the oil industry made a thin upper crust gorgeously rich, but scarcely benefited such middle-class families as the Betancourts. Rómulo went to work as a bill collector for a wholesale tobacco firm, played sand-lot soccer (right forward), entered the law school of Caracas' Central University...
...Angeles to perk up the Hearst chain's coverage of the Finch-Tregoff trial. Reporter Kilgallen ranged far and wide, occasionally clucking faint disapproval of Carole Tregoff ("No one taking a long look at her would doubt that she was more interested in men than sculpture, soccer or Scrabble"), aseptical-y criticizing the jury ("It contains in the alternate section a lady I would not care to have judge me on a jaywalking rap"), offering advice on uxoricide ("The best way to murder your wife is to have a few drinks with her, pull out your revolver and shoot...
With the killer at large. Birmingham quickly became "Terror City" to London's flashy press. The Aston Villa soccer team canceled an out-of-town match because the wives of the members would not be left alone. Nurses on the night shift in all local hospitals were escorted to and from work in special buses, and movie usherettes ganged together rather than walk home alone. But the brutality of the murder was not the only thing that shocked Britain last week. The other was the strange behavior of the passengers...
Born on the island of Negros of part-Chinese ancestry (his last name is a cor ruption of the Fukien dialect and means "sixth son"), Lacson has been an amateur boxer, soccer player, anti-Japanese guerrilla, lawyer, professor and newspaper columnist. During the war he fought in the battles for Manila and Baguio, and was cited by the U.S. Sixth Army "for gallantry under fire." When Japan's touring Premier Nobusuke Kishi asked him if he had learned Japanese during the war, Lacson snapped, "I was too busy shooting at Japanese to learn any." Of Americans, he says: "They...