Word: greys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This failure to pin an unmistakable ideological label on himself has damaged his standing with liberals and the Washington press corps, brought upon him accusations that he is empty of genuine convictions, a man with a grey flannel mind. Only last week Symington set out to contradict that judgment by canceling his scheduled speech at a state Democratic dinner in Little Rock, Ark. when he learned that Negroes present would be seated at segregated tables. It was quite a decision for a man who depends heavily on palatability to the South to help him capture the presidential nomination...
...Dominican Republic exiles who cluster around the newsstands in Puerto Rico to snap up exported copies of their home-town newspaper, El Caribe, took fresh heart last week. The 92 pictures of Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, published on the occasion of his 68th birthday, showed an unsmiling man grey and haggard with age. Trujillo has lost 20 lbs. lately-whether intentionally or not is his own secret. In his 29th year as boss, the dictator has had to cut back on his old candle-burning office schedule at a time when his regime faces mounting problems...
High above the Hudson, Army practiced behind canvas-draped fences, and cadets bellowed fight songs that echoed through West Point's stern, grey buildings. At the Air Force Academy 2,000 miles away in Colorado Springs, the cadets whipped themselves up to such a pitch that they swarmed onto the practice field to shout encouragement at their startled team. For the first time, the new U.S. Air Force Academy was playing the U.S. Military Academy, and right from the start both schools were determined to make the series as memorable as Army-Navy...
...shadowy underworld of boxing, the wise guys knew that the man to see when a fight was to be fixed-or even scheduled-was a thug named Frankie Carbo, a flat-eyed hood with a shock of silvery hair. Nobody called him "Frankie." They called him "Mr. Grey." But when the law went looking for him, nobody could remember a thing about him -where he lived, what he looked like, or even when he had last been seen...
Last week, run down at last by dogged gumshoeing, Mr. Grey went to trial in Manhattan's General Sessions Court on charges of tampering with boxing. He had made a career of slipping the law's punches. Back in 1930 he had served less than a year for manslaughter, but over the years he had beaten five raps for murder. At 55, boxing's strong arm looked like a tired old man. His face was drawn, and he was suffering from diabetes. Even elevator shoes failed to give his 5-ft. 8-in. figure any stature...