Word: bantamweight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Dan Florio, 68, one of prizefighting's best-known trainers, himself a fair-to-middling onetime bantamweight, who in 47 years on the other side of the ropes turned out a dozen world champions, among them Jersey Joe Walcott and Floyd Patterson, whom the ever hopeful Florio hoped to see gain his crown for the third time in next month's match against Cassius Clay; of complications following gall-bladder surgery; in Jamaica, Queens...
...good reason for choosing Pastore as keynoter. He is an orator who can wind stems with the best of them. He is a champ in rough-and-tumble debate, belts out speeches from the Senate floor without text or notes, all the while flailing and dancing about like a bantamweight going for the K.O. Says one friend: "Nobody will go to sleep while he's talking. And I hope they give him room enough on the platform to move around...
...from an armored vehicle-usually a tank. Its microbeam-guidance system is so accurate that Shillelagh can destroy a tank, pillbox or troop concentration several miles away. Giving Shillelagh an added knockdown punch is its launching platform, the new General Sheridan tanklike armored vehicle. This is a speedy battlefield bantamweight (it weighs only 16 tons, compared with 50 tons for most U.S. tanks) that scoots along at 39 m.p.h. on the ground; when necessary it can dive into water and "swim" at 4 m.p.h. More important: the Sheridan is so compact that it can be parachuted to a battle area...
Rothenstein, who was knighted in 1952, has fought hard for the Tate-once with his fists. At a bubbly art-show opening, his chief detractor, the waspish critic Douglas Cooper, taunted Rothenstein once too often, and the bespectacled, bantamweight director flattened him with one fat punch. Rothenstein has to buy paintings before they get expensive and safe, and the result is a rare reputation for a public gallery. Its oldest painting dates from Henry VIII, but it also buys Britain's latest Pop artists. Says Rothenstein: "We're a nice mixture-something established and disestablished all at once...
...revenue, died at 40, leaving George to help support his mother. He was a little kid (today he stands 5 ft. 7 in., weighs 150 Ibs.), and a tough one. In high school he became a 98-lb. quarterback on the varsity football team, won Alabama's bantamweight Golden Gloves championship in 1936 and 1937, later fought professionally in one-night stands in tank towns...