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...there was any doubt in anybody's mind that the great Kremlin apparat has ganged up to brand Tito once again as a dangerous heretic, that doubt vanished last week. The Chinese Communists, last to speak, piled in, throwing the roughest punches aimed at Tito since Stalin's Cominform war of 1948. Yugoslavia's latest program for "separate roads to socialism," said Peking's People's Daily, is "out-and-out revisionism"-a Communist dirty word for any deviation from Moscow's line-and "viciously slanders the socialist camp." Its "evolutionary views," said...
Wear & Tear. Rodeo riding, Shoulders argues, is the roughest racket in sport. But it is not the physical danger that concerns him. "There is absolutely no money guarantee," he complains. "You've even got to furnish your own equipment, and you have to pay entry fees to compete. If you're hurt, you have to sort of scuffle around for yourself...
...Normandy invasion patching up the teeth of General Dwight Eisenhower, Lieut. Colonel Taylor had been turning in better scores than Lieut. Robbins all through the tournament. He seemed to have the hilly course all figured out. But in the final round, it was the course that was his roughest opponent. A week of wearing golf on the hills of the Country Club turned out to be too much for a man who does most of his weekday walking around a dentist's chair. Slowly, Bud faltered. His drives shortened; his irons were lazy and weak. Said he sadly...
...After 30 years on the track and more winners (5,090) than any jockey on record, Johnny Longden got the shortest and roughest ride of his career from a maiden filly named Royal Zaca at Del Mar. When his mount reared, Johnny was pinned against the starting gate and set down for the rest of the season with a broken...
Their digging resulted in the roughest, riskiest exposé ever carried by the 107-year-old Oregonian. It earned them the American Newspaper Guild's 1957 Heywood Broun Award.* And last week, as a grand jury handed down indictments in Portland, as the mighty Dave Beck fell off his high wagon, Turner and Lambert reaped the even greater satisfaction of knowing that their unlikely tale of local corruption had unfolded into a major national story...