Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the next child, a girl named Untamed, contracted pneumonia, Wife Sonia begged again. "Here is your doctor," shouted Rafael, waving a .38 revolver in a gesture that marked the beginning of the long imprisonment. The baby Untamed (now 17) survived, as have Free, 15; Sovereign, 14; Conqueror, 12; Good Life, 10; and Evolution of Liberal Thought, who was born just eight weeks...
...blooded sometime Playboy Luis Miguel Dominguin, 33, and boyish Antonio Ordonez, 27, Dominguin's good friend and brother-in-law, met last week in a mano a mano (duel between two bullfighters instead of the usual three) to determine which is Spain's best. In the Valencia arena, Ordonez swiftly dispatched his three bulls, showed the lethal grace that has. won him 42 ears as trophies from 26 fights this year. Making a comeback after a recent three-year retirement, Dominguin (57 ears in 29 fights this year) dispatched his first two bulls with some trouble...
Planned Togetherness. In an effort to give good value for rates that run up to $189 a week (for a room with two baths), the hotels-stretch their policy of planned entertainment into every waking hour. Gone are the toomlers, the noisy resident clown's who sang welcome and farewell songs for guests and yakked it up all over the lobby. Instead, there are art schools, beauty parlors as jammed as airraid shelters under attack, discussion groups, dancing classes. And everywhere, from swimming pool to dining room, there is the lavish style show that the guests put on themselves...
...neurologists have equated the jerks with epilepsy, but since they are so nearly universal, Dr. Oswald doubts the connection. Anti-convulsion drugs are sometimes prescribed for severe cases; if they work, it is probably because they bring on deep sleep faster. Reassurance, suggests Dr. Oswald, may also be a good prescription...
...result, says Driver Jack Brabham, 32, "is a car that's safer and easier to race." As others tell it, the driver makes the package look good. The son of a greengrocer in a Sydney suburb, Brabham studied engineering, during World War II was a flight mechanic in the Royal Australian Air Force. Brabham was lured into the pits by a driving friend who wanted a good mechanic on hand, and soon found himself behind the wheel, although he confesses: "I was frightened to death...