Word: boxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neighbor said that he was considerate: "The woman next door has a baby, and Frank would take the carriage in for her without being asked." He went three nights a week to a nearby Police Athletic League center, designed to keep boys out of trouble. He liked to box, but he was small: 5 ft. 4 in., 126 Ibs. He hoped to be heavyweight champion of the world, and he wanted to be called Tarzan. Recently, he had been insulted by a member of the Golden Guineas gang; the murder was intended to avenge his honor...
...Walter Hendl of the Dallas Symphony led a program of Berlioz, Gershwin, Richard Strauss and Brahms, got a six-minute ovation from an audience which included Crown Prince Akihito. Twenty-four hours before tickets went on sale for a special student concert, crowds began to line up at the box office, and students patiently went to sleep on the sidewalk. Three thousand who could not get into the hall petitioned the orchestra for another concert. (They will get it, at about 25? a seat...
...case of polio that had developed after use of vaccine made by Berkeley's Cutter Laboratories; it listed the date and site of vaccination, date of symptoms' onset, location of paralysis, age and sex-but not the name-of victims. As the week went on, the impersonal box score grew. The Salk vaccine still meant to most people what it had the week before-banishment of a crippling disease. But suddenly and tragically, its safety had been put in question...
...ferocious shoulder blocks, rattled ribs all over the field. It was just this sort of overaggressive play that meant the end of Navy's record of 19 straight victories. With the score tied 8-8 in the final quarter, Beagle and a teammate wound up in the penalty box. Maryland's Charlie Wicker, best player on the field, promptly set up the play that scored the winning goal...
Budget Day is a solemn, expectant occasion in the House of Commons. At 3:35 p.m., Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. ("Rab") Butler stepped up to the dispatch box and opened the battered, red leather case in which every British Chancellor since Gladstone has carried the British budget. He was greeted with Tory cheers, for with a general election a month away (May 26), they had hopes of good electioneering news...