Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...been underpaid throughout his career (during which he grossed $1,000,000), never had got his cut of $40,000 for two big fights from Manager Frank ("Blinky") Palermo. What seemed to nag at Williams most was that he had turned down more than $180,000 in bribes to throw fights, including one offer of $100,000 to go in the tank for Kid Gavilan. Concluded Williams with bitter hindsight: "I should have taken the money...
...urged students planning to go home by car for the holidays to leave Cambridge before this evening, as snowy weather threatens to throw a wrench into travel plans...
Chinese Tones. The Chinese Communists seemed ready to give a little, but not much, on specific issues of dispute with Moscow. They conceded that in underdeveloped countries Communist powers temporarily may cooperate with "bourgeois nationalists" who are actively trying to throw off imperialism. But such elements, said the document, are inherently "unstable," hence not to be trusted for long. Speaking in Chinese tones, the communique assailed Egypt and Iraq, where Russia has been attempting to buy the favor of the governments in power with gifts and loans, complaining bitterly that local Communist leaders still "languish in torture chambers" in both...
...tidily divided into three parts. Part One describes the 1947 "ingathering of the exiles" in a magnificent anecdote-the fiercely exciting dramatization of an episode in which some 600 Jewish internees escape from a British camp on Cyprus, board a rustbucket called Exodus in the harbor at Famagusta, throw all their food overboard and proclaim to the watching world that they will die of starvation or even blow up the ship unless the British let them sail for the promised land...
Meanwhile, in the weight events, Crimson performers were doing some recordbreaking of their own. In the 35-pound weight toss Ted Bailey set a new University record in an early throw. Stan Doten followed with a toss of his own that toppled Bailey's short-lived mark that had, in turn, erased Doten's distance reached last season. The new record stands at 62 ft., 10 3/4 in. and is expected to go higher as the season progresses...