Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last spring Assassin Ben Sadok, mingling with the crowd pouring from Colombes Stadium after a championship soccer game, shot and killed 60-year-old All Chekkal, onetime vice president of the Algerian National Assembly and one of France's most vocal supporters in North Africa (TIME. June 10), as he walked toward his car with Paris' director-general of police. In court last week 26-year-old Ben Sadok offered a highly literate defense (his favorite authors: Stendhal, Victor Hugo, Holland. Sartre, Camus). He denied that he had any connection with the rebellious Algerian F.L.N., explained that...
...major Chamberlain is having no trouble keeping up a B average; he is dean of pledges in Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, does a little disk-jockeying on a college radio station (KUOK), and still finds time to enjoy his own 50 albums of jazz and blues recordings. In the spring Wilt turns out for track, and though he is a little too casual about his form to suit Coach Bill Easton, he has already high-jumped 6 ft. 6 in., is expected to reach 6 ft. 8 in. with ease...
...practitioner in Manhattan-one Joseph Edelman of the Hypnotism Center, Inc. He spent four $25-a-half-hour sessions listening to a suave, persuasive voice tell him that he was not really afraid, that the plane would not really crash. Newk liked that kind of pitch; early last spring a chiropractor pal tried a little amateur hypnotism and temporarily relieved his arm. Perhaps, the pitcher decided, Edelman could trance him out of all the tensions that sweat up his palms and take the hop off his high hard one in the big innings of a big game...
...newest additions to the tour list is Rangely (pop. 800), which lies in such an inaccessible corner of Colorado that artists must drive in from Utah. Rangely music lovers wired Community Concerts Association last spring that they had collected $2,000 and wanted a concert series. When Community turned them down on the ground that it was essential to have a piano in town, the citizens of Rangely took up another collection, bought a new Baldwin grand, and got their series, including a male quartet and a two-piano team (which trucked in the second piano...
...dramatic groups, independent of the University, will produce Desire Under The Elms and King Lear in the spring term of this year. The Independent Players will present O'Neill's play in the Pi Eta theater in late March, and John Eyre '58, will produce "King Lear" sometime in April...