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...Lobos has acquired an ecstatic admiration for tall buildings and vanilla ice cream. In the encounter of two such dynamic protagonists as Villa-Lobos and the U.S., onlookers expected even more to happen before he returns to Rio de Janeiro, where he is the city's amateur three-cushion billiards champion as well as musical overlord of Brazil's Ministry of Education...
Note of Cheer. If high taxes and costs have put a ceiling on profits, businessmen may still extract one note of cheer: the same taxes may help to cushion the shock to profits when volume falls...
Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. ended whispered speculation among his subordinates by explaining the mystery of the doughnut-shaped cushion he carried through the Battle of the Bulge. While the General stood, it circled his arm; when he sat, it was under him. The burning question was: had hard-riding old Georgie Patton finally gone soft? The explanation: on the night Rundstedt attacked, the General took a fall in his blacked-out headquarters, bruised his coccyx...
Defending his world's three-cushion championship in New York last week, Hoppe was jerking rather than punching through with his deft cue-and that was all but fatal in this most precise of billiard games. Once before he had battled a similar bugaboo that made him fidget around too long, taking aim. He conquered that by counting softly, "One, two, three," shooting on three. This time, he relied on silent concentration...
...eight, set a tourney mark by bagging the required 50 points in only 20 innings. Once he had found himself, even the lingering aftereffects of amoebic dysentery, picked up on a Central American tour, could not keep him from making the most difficult of shots-such as a six-cushion carom with the object balls frozen on the rail...