Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dame Margot Fonteyn, 40, top ballerina of Covent Garden's Royal Ballet, has not been home much recently. Her most publicized wandering pirouetted her smack into "the presidential suite" of a Panamanian jail after her husband, ex-Panamanian Diplomat Roberto ("Tito") Arias, took her along on a comic-opera invasion attempt aimed at overthrowing Panama's government with a motley seven-man force (TIME, May 4). She was booted from the country next day. Last week Covent Garden's directors announced that the West's greatest ballerina will no longer be billed...
...batting practice, and dazzled team officials were saying that attendance for the year would be up 40%. The Washington Senators, long known for patty-ball hitting, were flashing the most exciting attack in baseball, a latter-day "murderers' row"* of strong silent men determined to shatter every home-run record in the game...
...Back home in Goteborg, Sweden's new Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson was whisked from the airport to a local stadium by helicopter, emerged with a boyish grin to walk on a red carpet and display his mighty right hand for 20,000 cheering fans, who paid 40? apiece to greet...
Downstairs & Upstairs. Starting the second half of the season, Washington led the majors in home runs (107), had a good chance of breaking the American League record of 190 set by the Yankees in 1956, and, with luck, might even top the majors' record of 221 set by the New York Giants in 1947 and equaled by the Cincinnati Reds in 1957. Twice last week Washington crashed three home runs in a single game. The amazing part of it all is that the Senators are challenging records set by teams loaded with power from top to bottom...
...Rookie Centerfielder Bob Allison, 25, handsome, hustling former fullback for the University of Kansas who once swung "like an old lady," according to Manager Cookie Lavagetto, but now has grooved his power so smoothly that he is dubbed "Mr. Downstairs" for his line-drive home runs, stands third in the league with...