Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Colombia, the rugged Andean land perched on South America's northwest shoulder, more than 200,000 men, women and children in the past 14 years have died in a senseless and uncoordinated fury that no one seems able to end. The butchery is so much a part of national life that many Colombians have learned to ignore it. Last week a powerful new book, La Violencia en Colombia, was creating a stir in Bogotá. It attempts to understand the killing, measure its costs, and bring Colombians face-to-face with the bloody, bitter consequences...
...Only the western copper town of Kolwezi remained in Katanga's grip; it was defended by 2,000 boozy gendarmes, 100 of Tshombe's white mercenaries, and a smashing blonde ambulance driver known as "Madame Yvette," who sauntered about in paratroop boots, camouflage uniform, bush hat and shoulder holster. Only 50 miles from Kolwezi, Indian infantrymen probed cautiously forward, waiting only for the signal to head full blast toward the town. But the signal would not be given rashly, for the ragtag mercenaries threatened to blow up a huge dam and industrial installations, leaving the town a blackened...
...stormy years. Near the end of his 45-minute farewell, the old union dragon who lost his job by a narrow 95 votes in a recent election glanced up at a portrait of himself on the wall, sniffed tentatively and dissolved into tears on the ever-ready shoulder of Toastmaster George Jessel. Jessel, whose tear threshold is lower still, joined sympathetically in the sobs: "I can stand to see a woman cry-that can be fixed by a new fur coat...
...ever loses interest in golf, the game may never be the same again. The rich pros will get poorer, start missing their putts, and have to go back to teaching other people. But so far, the trend is the other way, with TV cameras peering over the shoulder or sighting the roll of a green with nearly every pro who ever endorsed a set of woods. This week ABC begins a new series called Challenge Golf. The resident stars are Gary Player and Arnold Palmer, who as a best-ball team will take on various comers in a complicated...
...masthead of Newsweek magazine went a new name last week. Llewellyn Link ("Pete") Callaway Jr.. 55. advertising director (since 1959) of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, took over as Newsweek publisher. Callaway's new post represents a fission of existing executive authority. He will shoulder some of the duties of Newsweek's Gibson McCabe. who. until Callaway arrived, served in a double capacity as both president and publisher...