Word: sultan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Aaron hit an A1 Downing pitch over the left center field wall before a home crowd in Atlanta Monday night, Aaron broke Ruth's record of four decades to become the new home run king and on paper anyway, the new Sultan of the Swat...
There is a saying among Minneapolis singles that "if you can't make it at the Guard, you can't make it anywhere." Says Mai Kennedy, a Wisconsin attorney: "It's a sultan's haven. If you're a good operator, the only question is 'Where does one start?'" Females are equally enthusiastic. "I get ten offers a night," boasts Kathy Thue, 23, a beauty adviser from Minneapolis. "The body friction is enough to get everyone going...
Died. Ismet Inönü, 89, first Prime Minister of modern Turkey; of a heart attack; in Ankara. When the Sultan was deposed and Turkey became a republic in 1923, Kemal Atatürk as President and Inönü as Prime Minister abolished the semireligious office of Caliph and began to westernize the country's educational, legal, military and industrial systems. Inönü was elected President in 1938 and served until his defeat in the election of 1950. From 1961 to 1965 he was once again Premier; after leaving office he continued to influence...
...Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. After leaving that post in 1970, Eilts joined the faculty of the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., where he wrote eruditely on such obscure facets of U.S. Middle East policy as President James Buchanan's contacts a century ago with the feudal Sultan of Muscat and Oman...
...generation's box score, a monument of talent, accomplishment and appetite. George Herman Ruth−the glorious Babe of baseball−was and is the nation's finest sports legend. No one will ever replace him as the Sultan of Swat. Without Ruth, Hank Aaron and future sluggers would have no standard of greatness to be measured against...