Word: bout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cavalcade of Sports (Fri. 10 p.m., NBC). Rocky Castellani v. Tiger Jones in ten-round middleweight bout...
...with the worst case of that chronic big-city ailment, smog. Though usually its immediate effects are only smarting eyes and sore throats, smog can have serious indirect consequences, including traffic accidents, respiratory trouble, possible (though not proved) influence on lung cancer. Scientists measure the strength of a smog bout by the amount of ozone in the air. If the ozone count ever reaches 1.5 parts per million, public health officials fear disaster. The Los Angeles smog last week reached 0.90. California's Governor Goodwin Knight stood ready to declare the city a disaster area, and to proclaim martial...
...times was out on the docks at 3 a.m. on hauling jobs. He planned to be a lawyer, took pre-law courses at Fordham and attended night classes for a year at the Brooklyn Law School. But iritis, a chronic eye ailment that was the residue of an earlier bout with rheumatic fever, ended his schooling. (His mother still mourns his failure to become a lawyer, saying, "A solid thing. He would've been a judge...
...Ararat Temple in Kansas City, Mo., declared himself "fit as a fiddle," rode for a time in the seven-hour-long Shriners' parade, then joined Governor William Stratton in the reviewing stand. Next day he paid a call on Adlai Stevenson, fresh from a hospital bed and a bout with bronchial pneumonia, agreed with him that "the best thing for the country is the Democratic Party...
...good little man, ambitious but amenable. One steamy evening last week, 27,431 fans plunked down $206,784 at New York's Polo Grounds to learn whether Challenger Olson, no knockout specialist, could outlast 2-to-1 Favorite Moore. After 19 hectic years in the ring, 143 professional bouts, Moore had already designated (in paid newspaper ads) his target for Bout No. 145: Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano...