Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Szechuan-born peasants, Liu Po-cheng early became a soldier, fighting the warlords' battles. In one early encounter, he lost an eye and gained his nickname. During the brief marriage of the Kuomintang and the Communists, he fought for Chiang Kaishek. After Chiang split with the Communists, Liu went to the Moscow Military Academy. On the Communists' famous retreat into Shensi (1934-35), Liu negotiated with savage Lolo chieftains to give the Communists safe passage through their forests. To seal their agreement, Liu and the Lolos' high chieftain drank newly killed chicken's blood. They swore...
After his big car (the same old one, remodeled) pushed over 350 miles an hour, it began shimmying and weaving; his head battered back & forth in the bubble cover. At the end of the measured mile, the electric timing eye clocked him at a record-breaking 385.6 m.p.h. He had to slow down to 250 before applying the brakes. Half an hour later, going northward with a light tail wind, he reached 403 m.p.h. After officials juggled the figures around for a few minutes, Cobb's record went on the books as 394.196 m.p.h. A reporter asked him whether...
...Eye for Retreads. Brooklyn's fatherly Manager Burt Shotton, 62, is a man who had known failures too. A few years ago, hot-tempered fans booed his third-base coaching at Cleveland. He and Bucky had both sunk as low as anyone could in the big leagues: both had suffered as managers of the lowly Philadelphia Phillies. Both had been demoted to the minors and then bounced back. Burt's workaday formula is the same as Bucky's. Says Burt: "When a guy does something wrong, that's no time to get on him. That...
...curium was announced in 1945 (TIME, Nov. 26, 1945). But the element was not "isolated" (purified chemically) until recently. The world's total supply, prepared by Drs. Isadore Perlman and L. B. Werner of the University of California, is barely big enough to be seen with the naked eye...
Henry Ford II got an eye-opening, if dispiriting lesson in labor relations. Three months ago, he had agreed to U.A.W.-C.I.O. demands for a pension plan that would cost the Ford Motor Co. around $200 million (TIME, July 7). Young Henry's plan was as revolutionary as his grandfather's $5-a-day wage was in 1914. The U.A.W., which had threatened to strike if it did not get the plan, apparently agreed. It loudly proclaimed that the joint U.A.W.-Ford pension plan would be a pattern for all other automakers to follow. But last week...