Word: raying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...item in Walter Winchell's column one day last June sounded genuinely solicitous. "Sugar Ray Robinson and gambler-shylocks are at war," it read. "Buddies rushed out of Harlem bars and saved him from planned mayhem. This man may be slain, Mr. Police Commissioner . . ." But for at least one Winchell reader the solicitude was less than welcome. Last week onetime World Welterweight and Middleweight Champion Robinson, now a slow-motion 44, sued Columnist Winchell and his employers, Hearst Consolidated Publications...
...Sugar Ray claimed the large round sum on the ground that Winchell's pufflicity implied "intimate dealings with gamblers, that plaintiff had been engaged in gambling orgies and that he was heavily indebted to various gamblers, shady characters and persons of ill repute." The item, he said, had caused him "great pain and mental anguish," and had held him up "to contempt and reproach...
...suit revived rumors that Robin son has been aching to square off with Winchell ever since the columnist declined to take him to the Stork Club, a favorite Winchell haunt, some years ago on the ground that Negroes weren't welcome there. But Sugar Ray insisted he was not nursing an old grudge; he was only defending his honor. As for Columnist Winchell, he kept unprofessionally mute. And the Hearst organization struck a public posture of unconcern. "If Robinson's going to tangle with our lawyers," said National Editor Frank Conniff, "then he's got more money...
...tiny radiation source is cranked 6 ft. into the shaft. A strip of industrial X-ray film wound around the engine is bombarded by the gamma rays streaming out from the isotope. The result is a detailed X-ray photograph of the hundreds of tough-to-get-at rotor blades that suck air into the engine, compress it and feed it to the combustion chambers...
Kelley recovered rapidly and was ready to go home when the doctors decided on a last-minute X ray, a final checkup for safety's sake. The results were astonishing: the bullet seemed to have disappeared. Then another X ray found it-lodged in the right ventricle (lower chamber) of Kelley's heart. Medical annals are full of cases in which wandering bullets have traveled from the chest, say, to such unlikely places as the knee. But the young Maine hunter had set what astounded doctors thought might be something of a record. Having been shot...