Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several weeks ago a pilotless Hellcat, remote-controlled by radio, was catapulted from the carrier Boxer in the Japan Sea. For the first few minutes the robot's flight was controlled from the carrier's deck; then a piloted AD attack bomber, serving as a guide plane, took over. The Hellcat had a 2,000-lb. high-explosive bomb strapped to its belly, and a television camera under one wing. A TV screen in the guide plane enabled the observer to see just what the robot plane's camera "saw." Another screen on the Boxer also reproduced...
...Ring (King Bros.; United Artists) is a simple, straight-forward story of racial discrimination with a harsh setting: a Los Angeles prizefight ring. A young Mexican-American with a chip on his shoulder becomes a boxer "because it pays to be somebody." He turns professional, is badly beaten in the ring, and decides to quit boxing because he comes to realize that there are better ways to fight for respect from the "Anglos...
...afternoon last week, in his book-lined study on the Venusberg overlooking Bonn, Kurt Schumacher received newsmen and a MARCH OF TIME cinema crew. He asked that pictures be taken of his boxer Ajax, because, "after all, he is the best looking." Then Schumacher repeated his familiar line: "The partition of Germany is the greatest source of strength for Soviet policy. Reunification is an aim more pressing and more important for peace . . . than any form of integration of one portion of Germany with other European countries." It turned out to be his last no to Western policy. That night, Kurt...
...Lemelin had won the junior ski-jumping championship of Quebec and had started to become a promising local boxer. While practicing for the Canadian skiing championships, however, he fell and broke his left ankle. A resulting infection helped keep him in the hospital eleven months...
...Moon Was High. Surprised by the killer, Sir Jack, onetime college welterweight boxer, had apparently resisted until two shots got him. Four bullets more accounted for Lady Drummond. Elizabeth, a witness of the murders, had fled toward the river, but the killer had overtaken her, clubbed her to death with the butt of his rifle. If money was his objective, as it possibly was, the killer had overlooked 5,000 francs ($14) in Lady Drummond's handbag. In the river, police found the murder weapon: a U.S. Army M1 carbine...