Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozen friendly nations, to support and guard the southern flank of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to land marines anywhere that they are needed, and even to reinforce the U.S. Air Force (if called upon) in a strategic bombing northward over the Black Sea to Moscow. It is uniquely fitted to move in on crises ranging from local riot to local war without setting off a big global bang. "We can exert flexible force tailored to fit any situation," says Vice Admiral Charles Randall ("Cat") Brown, 57, the weathered combat-carrier veteran who has commanded the Sixth Fleet since last...
...Tisch Hotel chain (the Traymore and Ambassador in Atlantic City, NJ.; the Belmont Plaza in Manhattan), the Americana offers such inducements as a huge, cone-shaped $300,000 terrarium in the center of the lobby (filled with orchids and rare fungi) and four restaurants with the help dressed to fit the decor, e.g., waitresses in Rose Marie operetta costumes for the Dominion of Canada Coffee House, waiters in Argentine cowboy pants for the Gaucho Steak House...
Boston's Bill. Boston's basketball pros have long boasted most of the best players in the N.B.A.; now they fit together into the best team. The deadpan fakery and ballet-ball handling of Bob Cousy are as spectacular as ever. Under the backboards, muscular Jim Loscutoff, once of the University of Oregon, is throwing his weight (225 lbs.) around with bruising efficiency. The soft, high-arcing long shots of quiet Bill Sharman are hitting so often that he is now being called one of the greatest set-shot marksmen in the history of the game...
...near Miami Beach, under the approving eye of a local pro, Manhattan Lawyer Thomas E. Dewey, 54, wearing Bermuda shorts in balmy 80° weather, practiced some shots with his irons, thus gave golf another boost toward seeming the modern politician's favorite game. A middling golfer keeping fit, Republican Dewey usually tours 18 holes in the high...
...known socialist state would have given him leg room). When his books did well, he built himself a thoroughly unsocialist, ranch-style castle in California's Valley of the Moon (it burned down before he could move in). He died at 40, probably a suicide during a fit of depression...