Word: season
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this year, Ilocos Sur's murder roster totals 61, but the season is barely under way: in Ilocos Sur, as in the rest of the Philippines, elections will be held in November to choose new mayors, a new provincial governor and eight new Senators to send to Manila, and this always makes for unrest. As frightened priests (who celebrate separate Masses in Ilocos, one for each faction) called for peace and quiet, the Philippine government dispatched a battalion of 1,100 troops to the troubled province, and three more judges were rushed up to Vigan to help handle...
...Marcos Pérez Jiménez to stick close to his Miami Beach mansion for 60 days so that he can be in court when his successors make their case for extraditing him on charges of murder, embezzlement and complicity in murder and embezzlement. As the out-of-season strongman put up $25,000 bail, a Miami Beach neighbor, Radio Station Owner A. Frank Katzentine, squawked loudly: "If he is such a bum, why did the U.S. decorate him [in 1954] with the Legion of Merit...
Most remarkable record in this season's book belongs to little (5 ft. 8 in., 155 Ibs.) Elroy Face, relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates (TIME, June 22). Last week Face beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-6, to make his record a startling 17-0, and to extend his winning streak over two seasons to 22 games. Face has not lost since May 30, 1958, has often been helped by the happy knack of the Pirates of winning extra-inning games (18 out of 20 this year). Baseball's leaders, with four weeks to play...
Good Money = Good Press. In their appetite for these hidden assets, Mexico's underpaid newsmen, whose visible salaries range from $2 to $8.13 a day, leave hardly a news beat unexploited. Bullfighters commonly reserve up to one-third of a season's take for newspaper, radio and TV critics, who might otherwise ungraciously give top billing to the bulls. For pesos the journalists make lackluster movies seem works of art, and prizefighters jewels of virtuosity. And woe betide the motorist who, after an accident, neglects to grease a police reporter's outstretched palm: next...
...shoot-'em-up, but a welcome sign of a change in the weather. When Steve McQueen, as Bounty Hunter Josh Randal, takes up with "the Montana Kid," he will be the first of the fast-draw men to desert reruns and start fresh shows for the new fall season...