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...year-old Negro girl from Clarksville, Tenn. In a field of female endeavor in which the greatest stars have often been characterized by overdeveloped muscles and underdeveloped glands, Wilma ("Skeeter") Rudolph had long, lissome legs and a pert charm that caused an admiring Italian press to dub her "the Black Pearl." Last week Wilma Rudolph became the only track star, male or female of any country, to win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics...
Even after that attack, MacArthur continued to recommend that Ike go ahead with the Tokyo visit unless the Japanese government itself asked him to stay away. But with the pointed firmness that has led one colleague to dub him "the man with the most leg drive in the Foreign Service," MacArthur also pressed Kishi's government for details of the security measures planned for Ike's arrival. When he learned that Kishi's chief security scheme was to organize pro-government demonstrations to counter the leftists, MacArthur cabled Washington that he could no longer hold...
...contracts were signed, the tickets went on sale at $10 to $100 a seat, and the promotional drums began going rub-a-dub-dub. Off to a fancy Catskills resort last week went World Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson, accompanied by a horde of newsmen, handlers and hangers-on, as he began training to defend his title in Manhattan's Polo Grounds on June...
Eyes West. Kubitschek's critics dub him "Pharaoh Juscelino" because historians reach back for a comparison to the Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, who between 1375 and 1358 B.C. built the Egyptian capital of Akhetaton after deciding that Thebes was out of favor with his god. In ambition, though not in tragic cost, Brasilia might also be compared to St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), erected on inhospitable marsh, at a cost of more than 30,000 lives, to gratify Peter the Great's passion to open ingrown Russia to the Baltic and to Western influence. Kubitschek also looks west, but inwardly...
With his eight goals this afternoon, Bohn moved his season total up to 31, bettering last season's high set by Dub Mallonnee...