Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to divert Catholics from the Plaza de Mayo, Perón & Co. timed Boxer Pascual Pérez homecoming from Japan (where he had defended his world flyweight championship) to coincide with the Corpus Christi ceremonies. At midweek the government invoked the law, passed after the church feud broke out, banning outdoor religious gatherings without police permission...
...devoid of Latin temperament, utterly dependent upon his knowledge of engines and his exquisite reflexes, Alberto ("Ciccio")* Ascari finally hit his stride in the auto-racing heyday after World War II. He traveled everywhere-Spain, England, Argentina-and everywhere other drivers ate his dust. He worked up a fine feud with Argentina's Champion Juan Manuel Fangio. In Brazil one day in 1949, he swung too wide on a turn, hit a roadside rock, turned turtle and wound up with a broken collarbone, three broken ribs and three fewer teeth than he started with...
President Juan Peron's feud with the Roman Catholic Church has raised a painful question of conscience for many an Argentine: Can a good Catholic possibly remain a good Peronista? Last week a Peronista member of the federal Chamber of Deputies, Roberto Adolfo Carena, announced that, as a lifelong Catholic of "sincere conviction." he was resigning from the Chamber in protest against the government's anti-church measures. The Peronista majority, flustered and angry, refused to accept Carena's resignation, instead voted to expel him for "lack of faith, loyalty and solidarity...
...week before, the Run for the Roses had figured to be a two-horse race. Nashua and Summer Tan would be continuing their thrilling two-year-old feud. But the crowd had taken a fancy to California-bred Swaps. Now he was their 14-5 second choice-high esteem for a colt whose ex-cowboy owner had come to Kentucky in 1933 with $600 in his poke and a yen to buy some brood mares. By 1946 Ellsworth was successful enough to buy a brown horse named Khaled from the Aga Khan, and last week Khaled's son Swaps...
...small-town scrapper from Cadillac, Mich., Ad Wolgast took the title from Battling Nelson in 1910. Their 40-round brawl at Point Richmond, just across the bay from San Francisco, was one of the bloodiest in the history of boxing. Promoter Billy McCarney had stirred up a fine feud between the fighters, and when Referee Eddie Smith called them to the center of the ring to explain the rules, Nelson cut him short: "Let everything go. No fouls." That was all right with Ad. It was a fight to the finish. In the 23rd round Nelson, the "Durable Dane," dropped...