Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the U.S. he imported such big-league stars as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmy Foxx, reported every move they made in Yomiuri. On one tour Ruth hit 18 home runs. Says Shoriki: "Every smack boosted circulation." (Later. Shoriki started the Japanese baseball league, now led by his own Yomiuri Giants.) From the U.S. he also imported the moneymaking journalistic ideas of his good friend, the late William Randolph Hearst...
Landing in Manhattan after a seven-month European concert tour, Peru's multi-octaved Singer Yma Sumac, with her son Charles, 5, in tow, bumped smack into immigration officials who detained her at the pier for an hour, then confined her to the New York City area pending a hearing this week. In tearful confusion, Yma wailed: "I didn't kill. I didn't rob. I didn't nothing. What?" Yma and her husband, Peruvian Composer Moises Vivanco (similarly treated when he returned to the U.S. last month), blamed the "professional jealousy...
Plenty of Hum. In spite of such setbacks. Stoddard maintained his equilibrium. "You know." says he, "anybody who serves the total public is in the midst of life. The school superintendent does not live in a house by the side of the road; he's right smack in the middle of the road, and sometimes he gets bumped." Though bumped aplenty. Superintendent Stoddard kept his schools humming. He upped the annual budget from $90 million to $150 million, put through a school bond issue for $130 million. He has put up scores of new school buildings...
...General Tanganyika," China's former second in command, and "General Katanga." Field Marshal Russia also replied-but in a taunting letter sent not to General China but to British District Officer John Candler. "Soon you die," the note said. Shortly afterwards, Candler drove into the forest and ran smack into Russia's ambush. His body was buried this week in Nairobi's cemetery, but without a head. Kimathi's men kept that as a trophy of the battle...
...delegates to the Tenth Inter-American Conference in Caracas last week doubted that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles could put through the U.S. program against Communism in the Americas. But in pressing his cause, Dulles ran smack into the age-old Latin American feeling against the Colossus of the North. Though the Latin statesmen for the most part could see the intellectual force of Dulles' arguments, the fact was that deep in their hearts many of them resented such forceful U.S. leadership. Emotionally, they were prepared to cheer any David brash enough to give Goliath a symbolic kick...