Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game of billiards is older than Shakespeare-perhaps older, even, than Cleopatra. If Egypt's Queen (69-30 B.C.) indeed wielded a knowing cue, the world had to wait 20 centuries for another woman to challenge the male's domination of the sport. Last week, in a velour-lined, gold-chandeliered billiard club on San Francisco's Market Street, a woman was doing just that...
That afternoon, at a garden party, the royal couple met, among 2,800 guests, red-turbaned Somali tribesmen, Masai elders in monkey skins, wielding flywhisks of horsehair, and a chief who sported, screwed into his pierced lower lip, an ivory pendant as big as a billiard ball. Elizabeth had still not overcome the nervousness noted on her Canadian visit, but Philip moved easily, chatted graciously, as though enjoying every moment...
...soon be announced as Politburocrats, are: Mikhail Suslov, 49, newly appointed editor of Pravda, he travels in Europe on Cominform errands. Panteleimon Ponomarenlco, 49, also a member of the party secretariat; chief food stockpiler; former Premier of his native White Russia and billiard champion there. Matvey Shkiryatov, 68, Old Bolshevik (joined in 1906); for 30 years Stalin's man on the Party Control Commission; Trotsky called him "slightly drunken...
...like Ohio's Senator Robert A. Toft, who try to cover their bald spots by combing up a fringe of hair, are known as "slicker-overers," charged a fellow Republican Senator. Said Colorado's Eugene D. Millikin, who is billiard-bald himself: "How can you get any place in politics if you deceive people...
...Chicago, warming up for his 44th year of tournament play, Billiard Champ Willie Hoppe chalked a cue and mused: "At 63 I know I'm not getting any better. All I can do is hold my own, but my own is still good enough...