Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lesser of two evils, the U.S. military administration went into some more political flimflam to ensure his election. On the advice of Okinawan conservatives, General Moore consented to the merger of Naha proper with the neighboring town of Mawashi, supposedly an anti-Senaga stronghold. As it turned out, this bit of gerrymandering was what elected Senaga's candidate Kaneshi. When the votes were tallied last week, Kaneshi proved to have lost Naha proper by 3,000 votes. But in Mawashi, Kaneshi picked up enough votes to give him a narrow 35,491-to-34,507 victory over Taira...
...winds in Wellington, New Zealand, last week were every bit as bad as their reputation, and the visiting tennists were every bit as good. Despite blustering westerlies that whipped through the "World's Windiest Capital," Pro Champion Pancho Gonzales and Challenger Lew Hoad put on so relentless an exhibition that down under fans were perfectly satisfied that they had seen the most powerful tennis ever played anywhere...
...exact) and was whipped by almost every pro he played, a few cynical sports suggested that last week's tight tennis was all an act. But no one with decent eyesight took the sneers seriously; the matches were too tough, too tense to be the least bit phony. In Sydney a fine two-hour contest of four sets sent Pancho to the showers with an aching forearm muscle and a stomach tied in knots. In Adelaide. Pancho's tennis-toughened hands took such a beating that he lost in five sets and left the court with three fingers...
...Ruth Ulferts of the senior high school in Anoka, Minn. (pop. 7,396) regarded the assignment as strictly routine. Write a theme on a book, she told her class; any book will do. Gangling Sophomore Richard Ingledue, 15, son of a truck driver, picked up his pencil, frowned a bit and began...
Died. Margaret Anglin, 81, sad-eyed, Junoesque tragedienne, one of the greats of the American stage; in Toronto. Born in the Canadian House of Parliament (where her father, as Speaker of the House of Commons, had quarters), Actress Anglin began in a bit part on Broadway, achieved fame overnight in 1898 as Roxanne in Richard Mansfield's production of Cyrano de Bergerac, made her greatest popular success (in 1906) in William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide...