Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...celebrated Lavon affair itself was still under tight wraps. Outsiders could only surmise that it concerned an ill-fated Israeli espionage ring smashed in Cairo in 1954. Lavon, who was Defense Minister at the time, resigned for his role in the affair. But he was able to prove to a meeting of the Israeli Cabinet six weeks ago that forged papers had been used as part of the evidence that had forced him out of office. Though Ben-Gurion stormed from the room, the Cabinet cleared Lavon of any responsibility for the 1954 fiasco...
...Rome for the elevation to cardinal of St. Louis' Archbishop Joseph Ritter was hot-fingered Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, a friend of the new cardinal since 1948. Musician Hampton, who kissed Cardinal Ritter's ring just after the formal papal announcement of his appointment, had made a special trip with a group of Catholics from Indianapolis, Ritter's former diocese. A onetime Catho lic altar boy who now belongs to no church but considers himself "a good-will ambassador of God," Hampton explained: "Cardinal Ritter's work for integration and in the educational field has given...
...reserved seats down front. With avid concentration, they followed every move of a band of fierce-eyed battlers that literally would rather fight than eat or mate. Handlers first strapped razor-sharp spurs to the feet of their birds, then placed them on their marks on the clay-floored ring. At the referee's cry of "Pit!", the cocks were released to clash feet-first in mid-air in frantic flurries of squawks and feathers...
From the spectators' point of view, there was good reason for insisting on such a fight to the finish: to settle beyond doubt the bets that were hollered across the ring by fans waving fistfuls of money. One typical fight last week drew 30 bets averaging $100 each-enough to run total betting during the four-day tournament to well over $750,000. Betting in Florida is just as illegal as cockfighting is legal, but no one seemed to worry. "It's all been taken care of long before the fighting starts," explained one reserved-seat...
...successor to be ready for the Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches in New Delhi next November. He planned to step down in May, and already felt like a schoolboy "getting in sight of the holidays," or a "matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring again...