Word: chins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flower Drum Song is clearly photographed, and brightly colored. But the songs-except for a charming little villanelle sung by Actress Umeki-don't exactly ring the gong, and Choreographer Hermes Pan has apparently reworked some routines from Chu Chin Chow. Also, moviegoers may be disturbed to find that most of the Chinese characters in the picture are played by actors of various other Oriental extractions. Honest, fellows, they really don't all look alike...
...rattling blocker, Saimes enjoys banging shoulder pads with defensive ends who outweigh him by 25 lbs. or more. "I like to go at an end straight up," he says, "as though I were carrying the ball. When I hit him, I try to play my helmet right under his chin as hard as I can. That shocks...
...colleges fielded brass bands to pep up the Saturday-afternoon football game. In the '20s, somebody dreamed up the idea of leading off the band with a female drum major, and the drum majorette was born. Soon there were teams of majorettes with high hats, tight pants, and chin-cracking dimpled knees. Today the drill teams are almost more active-in regional and national competitions, before TV cameras, on the road-than the school footballers they complement. Their marching and twirling routines are in finitely more intricate than football plays, their costumes more beguiling, their pride and discipline more...
...Premier Nikita Khrushchev appalled the General Assembly as he campaigned for Hammarskjold's destruction. "Whose saint is he? . . . It is not proper for a man who has flouted elementary justice to hold such an important post," cried Nikita. Hammarskjold listened, immobile, his hands folded against his chin. Then, pursing his lips, he fairly spat his reply: "This may seem to provide a strong reason why I should resign . . . [but] by resigning I would at the present difficult and dangerous juncture throw the organization to the winds...
...shorts and bare feet, Israel's prickly Premier David Ben-Gurion, 74, celebrated the eve of the 5,722nd (since the Creation) Jewish New Year by peering into his crystal ball for a Tel Aviv tabloid. "I am no prophet," cautioned Ben-Gurion as he hunched knees to chin, yoga style, to prophesy, "but if what we call the cold war is ended-and I hope it will be without the world exploding-in 20 years America will be a welfare state and Russia will be a democratic country...