Word: cues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nista militia got its first important workout during last September's abortive military uprising. C.G.T. Boss José Espejo shouted the radio alarm. On cue, workers rushed to the presidential palace; in the suburbs drivers jammed their big diesel buses across roads by which troops or tanks might have moved on the capital. After the revolt was snuffed out, "special mission'' groups of workers' militia swung briskly into action, rounding up and arresting suspects, running spot checks for illegal arms...
...game of billiards is older than Shakespeare-perhaps older, even, than Cleopatra. If Egypt's Queen (69-30 B.C.) indeed wielded a knowing cue, the world had to wait 20 centuries for another woman to challenge the male's domination of the sport. Last week, in a velour-lined, gold-chandeliered billiard club on San Francisco's Market Street, a woman was doing just that...
Japan's Masako Katsura, 38, is the first woman ever to try for the world three-cushion billiard title. Masako is cue-tall (5 ft.) and light as chalk (96 Ibs.). But her skill can make three ivory billiard balls do nearly everything but rattle Banzai! She will need all her wizardry for the next fortnight to beat out her nine topflight male opponents. The favored defending champion, 64-year-old Willie Hoppe, who was a billiard prodigy at seven, is still the greatest player of them all; he still practices five hours a day to keep the form...
Astronomical Run. Billiards' elite have kept themselves exclusive by devising tougher games every time too many players mastered the sport's simpler forms. In elementary straight-rail billiards, the cue ball must merely hit the two object balls (a rule that experts exploit by "position play," i.e., keeping the balls clicking around in monotonous little triangles). In balkline billiards, the next step up, the table is marked off in areas from which, for a player to go on scoring, at least one object ball must be driven within one or two shots...
...spectacular three-cushion game is the toughest: the cue ball, to score a point, must touch the cushions at least three times before hitting the second object ball. This is so difficult that the record run (points scored in a row), a mere 25 reeled off by Hoppe in 1928,* is regarded by cue connoisseurs as astronomical...