Word: hammerlocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vice President Richard Nixon's espousal of a policy of calculated coolness toward Latin American strongmen got a warm and friendly reading even in the Dominican Republic, where Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo runs the oldest (28 years) and tightest dictatorship in the non-Communist world. Keeping its usual firm hammerlock on reality, the government radio station in Ciudad Trujillo, La Voz Dominicana, explained: "We are not certain, but it seems logical that Nixon was alluding to the pathetic case of Puerto Rico, and to the dictatorship exerted over that unfortunate island by Governor Luis Muñoz Marin...
...very good," he says in his professional goulash-English. So last Christmas he announced that he would make his first public appearance as a crooner on his wrestling show. But on the big night he wrestled first-and "this bum gets me in a hammerlock, and he breaks my thumb. I was in such pain that I couldn't sing...
...local music promoter weighed Szabo's audience appeal, and decided that there might be a market for the Szabo voice. He dreamed up a new record label (Hammerlock), and recorded Szabo in two appropriate songs: Take Me in Your Arms and It's All in the Game. To the accompaniment of gypsy strings, Sandor exudes Danubian charm...
...technically perfect as ever; her pianissimos were downy, though her full voice had its familiar fault, a trace of stridency. Her main worry, however, was "getting through the afternoon without a broken neck. That man [Vinay] is crazy in this role." She survived two wristlocks and a hammerlock, and managed to display a fair amount of dramatic ability in doing...