Word: hammerism
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...pages. Dozza and his comrades are called the Gruppo Due Torri (the Two Towers Group), a reference to the pair of medieval leaning towers in the city's center which are the symbol of Bologna. Red election posters in the parks and piazzas are similarly bare of the hammer and sickle, and read: VOTA DUE TORRI...
...Russian men, shut out for the whole first week, finally got a couple of gold medals in men's track and field. Romuald Klim whirled the hammer 228 ft. 10½ in., and Russia's Valery Brumel beat the U.S.'s John Thomas for the ninth time in ten meetings in the high jump. Both Brumel and Thomas cleared 7 ft. 1¾ in.; the Russian won because he had fewer misses...
Supreme Court, but I miss the hammer and sickle on the cover...
...Hammer & Sickle. The Kremlin's two new rulers are well-traveled, well-educated professional men-Brezhnev a metallurgical engineer, Kosygin an economist. Both have given what to all appearances is their wholehearted support to the two fundamental policies that slowly were making Russia a less revolutionary place to live in: Khrushchev's "peaceful coexistence" with the West, and his ever greater emphasis on consumer production at the expense of heavy industry and armaments. They are members of the generation that has been labeled "Communists in grey flannel suits...
Harold Connoly, world record holder in the hammer throw, finished sixth at 218 ft., 8 in. behind the USSR's Rowald Klim, who won with a throw...