Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form of Turkey's threat to invade. Now, suddenly, the wily prelate was all sunshine and smiles. He got along famously with the new U.N. mediator, Ecuador's ex-President Galo Plaza, replacing the late Sakari Tuomioja of Finland, who died this month of a stroke. An athletic, handsome man of 58 who fights bulls for fun and is a constitutional optimist, Galo Plaza is proud of his Spanish ancestry. He said to Makarios, "I have Mediterranean blood in my veins and Mediterranean caution about believing all I am told." Smiled Makarios, "Ah, then we will understand each...
...Tony Lema, 30: the World Series of Golf, shooting a two-under-par 138 at the Firestone Country Club in Akron. "Champagne Tony," the British Open winner, fired a last-round 68, coasted to a five-stroke victory and the biggest paycheck in golf: $50,000. It was all "unofficial" as far as the Professional Golfers' Association was concerned, but the victory boosted Lema's 1964 win nings to $122,555 - ranking him ahead of the two top "official" moneywinners, Arnold Palmer ($110,743) and Jack Nicklaus...
Frantic Frenchmen. The Met's greatest stroke was its 1961 auction purchase of Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer; armed with backing from Redmond's board, Rorimer outbid the well-heeled Cleveland Museum with the highest known price ever paid for an art object, $2,300,000. But that deal involved only money, of which the Met has access to loads ($104 million-plus in assets, exclusive of its art riches); other triumphs are more intriguing. Four years ago, the Met stirred outrage in the Gaullist Parliament by quietly acquiring, for possibly...
...such luck. The ape woman dies in childbirth. The spiv, robbed by a cruel fate of his bearded breadwinner, faces destitution-or even employment. But at the last minute he is saved by a master stroke of showmanship: he discovers that the public, which paid good money to see the ape woman alive, will also pay good money to see her dead...
...some time on a book that would explore both the day-to-day workings of the court and the long-term developments in legal thinking that have made it so important a shaping influence on the U.S. system, particularly in the last decade. The Gideon case was a stroke of luck that Lewis had the journalistic wit to seize on to animate what might otherwise have been a forbiddingly austere exercise in legal citations and abstract discussions. Gideon's dramatic struggle became the vital thread of narrative on which Lewis hangs his account of the inner workings...