Word: jim
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After the Macho. Few presidents have ever had a more difficult act to follow. With his dash and magnetic oratory, Betancourt was a macho, the fiery tough-guy who helped topple Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez in 1958, tamed the military, walloped the Communists, and rammed through the initial economic and social reforms that started Venezuela on the road to recovery. More than anything else, Betancourt -the first popularly elected President in Venezuelan history to complete his term-proved that democracy could work in his country...
SUMMER PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Comedy about a newly married couple's attempts to set up house while continuing college. Patricia Blair and Jim Hutton are the newlyweds...
...fine day for the races, though most folks his age might prefer that old rocking chair, and so Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, who retired as a trainer last year, bustled off to New Jersey's Monmouth Park to hear the crowd roar "Happy Birthday" and share his 90th cake with 20 great-grandchildren. "It's a lucky thing I had the horse bug," confided the man who trained Gallant Fox and Omaha, Nashua and Bold Ruler, recalling the days when his mother-in-law wanted him to work as a streetcar conductor. "I was sending home more money from...
...football, pentathlon, decathlon, golf, bowling, hockey, lacrosse, swimming, rifle, squash, handball and horsemanship. So when he died in 1953, the Pennsylvania coal town of Mauch Chunk (pop. 5.945), not far from Carlisle, where he went to college, welcomed his corpse with a $10,500 mausoleum, and renamed itself Jim Thorpe, Pa., in his honor. The town fathers figured he would be a great tourist draw. But disillusionment has set in, and John H. Otto, chairman of the County Water and Sewer Authority, is now leading a campaign to change the town's name back again: "You mention...
...Washington. "After learning about unions in school," Ronny wrote, "I felt its about time something was done for the newspaper boys." A onetime carrier boy himself, Meany bucked the letter to the A.F.L.-C.I.O. regional office in Philadelphia. There was never any thought of organizing the boys. But, as Jim Gildea, Meany's assistant in Washington, said: "It simply was a touching letter. We all wanted to help...