Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Emerging from an all-day session with the Khrushchevs at Yalta-a swim in the Black Sea surf (K. wore an inflated rubber ring), a dinner with the family-U Thant allowed: "We covered a lot of ground." But as for any hope that Russia will fork out its share of the U.N. commitments, U Thant could only reply bleakly: "Chairman Khrushchev reiterated his traditional position regarding this matter." In other words, Nikita still considers the operations "illegal" and will pay none of their costs...
...many Ghanaians, the accusations had a hollow ring. Foreign Minister Adjei, 47, has been a staunch supporter of Nkrumah for years and is a leader of the moderate fringe, which occasionally has urged sense on Ghana's erratic leader. By contrast, Adamafio, 40, is a ruthless opportunist who clawed his way to the top on the strength of his anti-West, pro-Communist inclinations. His main public activity was to dream up new, adulatory names for Nkrumah; but for weeks, rumors of his plans to overthrow the Redeemer had swirled through Accra...
...getting boys and girls into 13 top medical and technical institutes for fees running from $1,600 to $18,870. To find clients, who mostly came from Georgia, Pkhaladze hired agents on a commission basis or made a direct pitch by longdistance phone. In Moscow he organized a ring of bright students to take his clients' entrance exams. The ringers were experts at passing just well enough to attract no attention; they got $2.88 a day plus an $11 bonus for each test. As an added service, Pkhaladze supplied term papers on a piece-rate basis...
...Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn. "A robbery, eh? Anything stolen?" To this slyly astute question, posed by the dryly astute Superintendent Quilt (Peter Sellers) of Scotland Yard, the answer is wryly affirmative and highly sinister. It seems that an international ring of Mukkinese battle-horn smugglers has heisted a Mukkinese battle horn from a museum in London. Description of stolen article: about 20 feet of antique copper plumbing, positively pimpled with rubies and emeralds. Looks like an anaconda necking with a nose cone, sounds like a hippo with gastritis, contains a slot for used razor blades...
...seat outdoor bleachers (at $1 a seat), and rock 'n' roll blares from a portable phonograph. Precisely at 2:30 p.m., Liston announces his arrival with an electrifying rat-a-tat on the lightweight "speed bag." He begins to shadowbox, sliding lithely about the ring, huge fists darting out at imaginary opponents. "Time!" calls a handler, and Liston begins to whale away in earnest at his sparring partners. "Time!" again, and Liston switches his attack to the heavy punching bag. Then he skips rope (to the tune of Night Train), winds up his workout with a dramatic, neck...