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...partisans know her as a raucously passionate crusader for minority rights, Women's Lib and the antiwar movement, a truculent and courageous woman. To the less friendly, she comes on as a sumo liberal, a lady wrestler, Joan of Arc resurrected as an elemental yenta. No one, friend or enemy, denies that Bella Abzug has a certain presence...
...season sounds incredible [March 29]. Cop turned priest? How about featuring a bulldozer operator turned brain surgeon, a Sumo wrestler who moonlights as a ballet dancer or a defensive lineman who embroiders baby clothes to pay for a hamburger franchise...
...employer also provides a plenitude of sports and recreational facilities-swimming pools, meeting halls, tennis courts, golf courses, baseball diamonds and rugby fields. Hundreds come out to cheer the Toyota teams in competition with those of other companies. Classes are offered in flower arranging, sumo wrestling, water skiing, skating, weight lifting, squash and judo. A worker or his wife can learn to play a guitar and join a company band. For vacationing employees, Toyota maintains a string of mountain and seaside resorts, which charge about $1.40 a day, including food. These benefits are motivated less by union pressure than...
Dumped. Despite his exalted ranking, Takamiyama still has a lot to learn about technique, as his match with Taiho proved. Following sumo's ancient ritual, the two giants prepared for battle -rinsing their mouths with water to purify their souls, stamping their feet to frighten away evil spirits, tossing handfuls of salt to sanctify the dirt ring, holding out their arms to show that they had no concealed weapons. After that, they simply stared at each other for several minutes. Only then, with a wave of his fan, did the referee signal for the fight to begin...
...over in 30 seconds. Springing forward, Taiho ducked low, grasped Takamiyama in a sukuinage, or "scooping throw," dumped him on the ground. Takamiyama was not at all dismayed by his defeat. Nor were the critics. The Tokyo newspaper Hochi Shimbun predicted that Jesse Kuhaulua will win the sumo championship "within a couple of years...