Word: room
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them, John D. IV", 22, was discovered last week in Tokyo living in an $11.80-a-month room with a matted floor for a bed at Japan's International Christian University. Said he: "This is the life. It couldn't be better...
...travels. In Kenya, barely five years after the Mau Mau terrors, whites now dine with blacks in some of Nairobi's more fashionable hotels and restaurants. In Southern Rhodesia the whites are called "masters"; a government official summons a black clerk and says, "Solomon, show this master where Room 207 is." In Johannesburg there are two separate bus systems, one for the whites and one for the nie blankes. But a black carrying a heavy sack of parcels at the behest of a white mailman automatically becomes white for the duration of their trip together...
...dressing room at Los Angeles' cramped Olympic Auditorium, Moore (5 ft. 3 in., 126 Ibs.) gulped a tablespoonful of honey half an hour before the fight ("It puts the sweetness back into you"), performed perfunctory stoops and bends, and thumbed the Bible ("I just open the Good Book and read whatever I come to"). Then he set out to take Bassey apart. When Bassey did not come to him, Counter-Puncher Moore went to Bassey, blasting home occasional shots to the body with such force that the Nigerian's gasps were heard in the balcony. By the tenth...
...there will be no beddingdown together for one month. The spurned husband takes three cold showers a day, and the newlyweds fill the frustrated hours with a colorful junket about Spain, where much of the picture was shot. As a studio pressagent describes it: "It's a drawing-room comedy, mostly out doors." Or, as the teen-agers say, mostly out to lunch...
...sounds like a lightning bolt is going off in the next room," says one worker. The building shakes, but researchers at Washington's Naval Research Laboratory hardly look up. They know it's only dynamic Alan Kolb, 30, at work on his thermonuclear experiment...