Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guerrilla fighters at the key European operations center at Bad Tölz, Germany, sport a variety of languages ranging from Russian through most of the tongues and dialects of the satellite countries. During the training course, the officers and enlisted men parachute into simulated target countries. If, for example, the country is Hungary, they must know how to find a street in Budapest, be able to talk knowingly about the principal Hungarian poets, and know the proper words for romance. The Pacific center at Okinawa consists of a core of 350 men, well versed in jungle warfare, who operate...
...that may be by default for Orane Demazis' Fanny is wooden and not really believable; Pierre Fresnay as Marius is stilted and a bit constipated. This leaves the screen to the senior trio--Raimu, Charpin as Panisse, and the brilliant Alida Rouffe as Fanny's mother. These three hams sport around the screen, indulging in every kind of histrionics: uproarious and tragic by turn, they are spellbinding and immensely warm. But Raimu best of all explores the depths of Cesar. Pagnol and the actor join hands to create a gruff, overbearing, and thoroughly vulnerable character...
Better Board than Head. Karate has won the allegiance of such as Actors Rory Calhoun, Macdonald Carey, Nick (The Rebel) Adams and TV Detectives Frank Lovejoy, Darren McGavin, and Rick (Dangerous Robin) Jason. Elvis Presley, who learned the sport in Germany as a G.I., now spars with two sidekicks during moviemaking lulls, and even Film Composer Bronislaw Kaper has taken to the loose white gi suit worn for karate lessons...
...Columnist Joe Hyams: "We all work in an environment that's fraught with hostility. It's great to bust a board instead of a head." Board busting with the naked hand is a spectacular but comparatively recent demonstration of karate (literally, empty hands). Legend holds that the sport was started in the 6th century by an Indian Buddhist monk named Daruma Taishi, who taught it to Chinese monks. It was refined on Okinawa after 1600, introduced in the 1920s to Japan, where it quickly shared popularity with the gentle art of jujitsu and its systematized variation, judo...
...chattery, their eyes dancing with excitement, came a swarm of 18 young members of the U.S. figure-skating team, headed with their coaches for the world championship competitions at Prague. Fresh-faced and eager, they were 'the cream of America's talented skating stars, experts in a sport that requires hard selfdiscipline, dedication and diligence. In the group were the brother-and-sister teams of Laurie and William Hickox and Ila and Ray Hadley, the married team of Patricia and Robert Dineen, and Coach Edward Scholdan and his son James. The most famous skaters among them were...