Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hats in the Ring. Boyle's, most. serious competition for the union presidency is Elijah Wolford, 43, a miner who has switched to night work so he can spend his days campaigning. "The union," says Wolford, "has moved too far away from its original purpose-to protect the workingman...
Jock's problems will be worse this year since recent tabulations reveal that there are 1350 entrants. Jock told the Herald's Tim Horgan how he felt the other day. "The greatest race in the world is becoming a three-ring circus. I'm all for physical fitness, but this is ridiculous," Semple quipped...
...1700s the marble tournament had become an annual Good Friday ritual in Tinsley Green. The tourney began in the morning; at high noon (the hour Sussex taverns open), the referee cried "Smug!" and the tournament ended. The rules are wondrously simple: 49 marbles are placed in the "pitch" (ring) and each member of the competing teams takes his turn at trying to knock one out. Shooting is a thumbs-only proposition-a flick of the wrist constitutes a "fudge" (foul) and disqualifies the contestant for that round. As in pool, each successful shot merits another, and the team that picks...
...unusually good reviews. Will Penny alternated some alertly-written unconventional scenes with great globs of familiar nonsense, finally falling to pieces with an unnecessarily downbeat ending. Its photography, by Lucien Ballard, consisted of tightly cropped, often two-dimensional compositions avoiding self-consciousness and trickery. The whole venture had a ring of effort and honesty about it, despite its failings, and I went to see 100 Rifles to investigate how many of Will Penny's virtues could be traced directly to Gries. Well, no I didn't either; I went to 100 Rifles to see Raquel Welch undressed...
...criminal process." Without any compensation, Duke has devoted as many as 80 hours a week trying to reverse the narcotics conviction of a Connecticut hairdresser named James Miller. In 1964 Attorney General Robert Kennedy called Miller one of the main figures in the nation's largest narcotics smuggling ring, but Duke is convinced that Miller was the victim of a grievous error on the part of the Government's chief witness, a Canadian named Joseph Michel Caron...