Word: florals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nudged off the U.S. team by George Woods, Al Feuerbach and Brian Oldfield. Feuerbach, who has hair like Samson's and a mustache like Fu Manchu's, releases the shot with a banzai-type yell. Oldfield competed at the U.S. trials in a brief, floral-patterned swimsuit and a low-cut fishnet jersey. If these Americans fail to stir the Munich stadium crowds, West German Uwe Beyer almost certainly will. After winning the bronze medal in the hammer throw at Tokyo in 1964, Beyer gave up sport to enter his Nordic features and Mr. Atlas physique in show...
...cater to the individual tastes of their customers, banks have long printed checks in a wide spectrum of colors. More recently some have begun to offer checks with floral or scenic backgrounds. Now the modest-sized Bank of Marin in Marin County, Calif., has gone one step further. Its customers can simply bring in their own photograph or drawing and have them printed onto a standard check form...
...Italy." But what kind of homage for Hoboken-born Frank Sinatra (whose father was born in Catania)? A bust seemed to be the answer, until somebody remembered a national law that forbids statues of liv-ing persons. Catania will probably say it with flowers instead-by dedicating a Sinatra floral zone in the public gardens and giving Frank honorary citizenship-and with a festa and TV cameras and maybe even with Frank...
...Cruel Dilemma On successive nights, 50 Colombo faithful marched in a prayer circle outside the hospital's emergency-entrance parking lot. Propped against a wall was a floral display of wilting red, green and white carnations. Small plaster statues of saints were mounted on the display's legs, and candles in various stages of use were piled beneath it. Their candles flickering in the warm evening wind, the marchers chanted, "St. Jude, help Joe Colombo" or joined in the Lord's Prayer...
Died. John S. Sumner, 94, for 35 years quixotic guardian of New York City's morals; of pneumonia; in Floral Park, N.Y. As executive secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice between 1915 and 1950, Sumner made smut chasing his lifework. He fought to have James Joyce's Ulysses banned, and helped send Mae West to jail for directing a 1926 play called...