Word: soo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1930s, he used to pick up $5 a game, playing first base for the Watkins, Minn., Independents in the Great Soo League. There, Eugene McCarthy was known as a fancy-Dan fielder and batted close to .350. Since he joined the Senators, he has often starred for the Donkeys in the annual game between congressional Democrats and Republicans, and he still gets wound up for hours discussing baseball and his all-time favorite performers, among them Gil Hodges and Ted Williams. Friends report that McCarthy is not so much interested in the outcome of a contest as in the style...
...weekend on Staten Island, where he did all the chores for a family of five. Impossible as it may seem, the show was amusing, but only because Tony Franciosa, as the publisher, delivered a winning personality far in excess of the requirements of the script, and Jack Soo, who looks like Robert Mitchum, was irresistible as his Chinese manservant, who talks hip and fancies the ponies...
...South Korea last week, a farmer named Song Kyu II traveled all the way from the southern provinces to parade before Seoul's Duk Soo Palace with a placard scrawled in his own blood: GENERAL PARK, PLEASE DO SOMETHING TO SETTLE THE CRISIS. Farmer Song was thrown in jail, along with some 200 other demonstrators who openly protested South Korean Strongman General Park Chung Hee's broken promise to call general elections in May and hand over power to the civilians. The wholesale arrests only served to attract more attentiom to the noisy campaign of former President...
...hanged men had in common was that they had all supported deposed President Syngman Rhee. Otherwise, their alleged crimes hardly seemed to merit the death penalty: former Home Minister Choi In Kyu was accused of fraud; Rhee's ex-bodyguard Kwak Yung Joo and Gangster Lim Wha Soo, of corruption; Socialist Choi Back Keum, of "antistate activities," and Publisher Cho Yong Soo was charged with "sympathizing" with the views of Communist North Korea...
Odds are that the Seaway in time will live up to its promise. Traffic in May through the major Montreal-Lake Ontario link rose 20%. Farther west, another traffic increase is expected upon completion of the "Connecting Channels" project, which will open a 27-ft. waterway through the Soo Locks and the Detroit, St. Clair and St. Marys rivers. The Seaway should benefit ultimately, too, from major new iron mines being developed in Labrador and from steadily mounting U.S. and Canadian exports. Says Chicago Regional Port Director Maxim Cohen: "We're just a waddling infant. It will probably...