Word: flyweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thai for first prize. Not since the night in 1960 when Thailand's Pone Kingpetch became flyweight champion of the world had there been such rejoicing in Bangkok. Radios blared, horns honked, and the queen pronounced herself "delighted" as bulletins flashed from Miami Beach that a Thai girl once nicknamed Pook (Fatty), raven-haired Apasra Hongsakula, 18, had been voted Miss Universe. Queen Sirikit, herself a famous beauty, had fussed with Pook before the contest, marching her up and down the palace halls to watch her posture. When it was all over, Pook (35-22-35) paraded into...
...utter rapture on his upturned face. Of Russia's Elvira Ozolina, crushed by her defeat in the women's javelin, rushing wildly into a hairdresser's to have her head shaved in shame. Of South Korea's defiant Dong Kih Choh, disqualified in his flyweight boxing preliminary, sitting angrily in his corner for 50 minutes while officials pleaded with him to leave the ring. And of the Hungarian water poloist who lost his trunks while the whole of Japan watched...
...Thailand's Pone Kingpetch, 27: his third world flyweight (112 Ibs.) championship, beating Japan's Hiroyuki Ebihara, who knocked him out in one round last September, by a split decision, in Bangkok's steaming (90°) Rajdamnern Stadium...
Last year's flyweight bestseller was Winnie Ille Pu, a Latin translation of A. A. Milne's wonderful beary story. Almost no one could read it, but it sold awfully well (it looked impressive on the coffee table, and the English original made a dandy pony). The book that seems certain to be this year's small mad success is not written in Latin, and it is not really a children's book. But it is, or is claimed to be, a child's book. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, a sheaf of very severe, very...
...Like a flyweight Samson, Billy sets everything tumbling with one incredible heave, then changes his mind and dashes about trying to catch the pieces. British Novelist Waterhouse agitates his farce with vigor as Billy makes up his mind to leave for London, tells off his parents, resigns his job and, in an apocalyptic mood, wastes an hour feeding what he supposes are aphrodisiac pills to one of his fiancees. After further complications, Billy becomes entwined with, if not actually engaged to a third girl...