Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Center Field -- Aaagh! These guys are both great. Garry Maddox topped Cesar Geronimo in hitting--.330 to. 307--and he is almost as good as Geronimo in the field. A razor-thin advantage for Philly...
Over Lhasa, the golden roof of the Potala Palace sparkled in the thin air. Once the living heart of Tibetan Buddhism, spiritual and temporal seat of the Dalai Lama, Potala is now a cultural relic. It remains an architectural wonder. Designed as fortress, labyrinth and spiritual sanctuary, Potala rises 13 stories high and stretches 460 yards along the dominating hillside. Across the front of the palace, in giant white letters on a black background, was a solemn epitaph: ETERNAL GLORY TO CHAIRMAN MAO TSE-TUNG, GREAT LEADER AND GREAT TEACHER...
...Peking residence, Forbidden City, stressed his abstemious habits and concern for the masses. Mao, the soldiers noted, worked "at all hours," frequently "ignoring calls to meals" and seldom resting, even on holidays and festivals. His shirts, shoes, blankets and sheets were said to be "worn thin from many years of use"; Mao refused to have his quarters refurbished for 20 years after "liberation" in 1949. In short, Mao was a model of the selflessness that was the heart of his vision for a remade Chinese society...
...other foreign diplomats and guests who had come to pay their last respects to Chairman Mao. All the world was there. Ahead of us were African women in colorful batik skirts; behind, a group of Peruvians. There were grim North Koreans, many in military uniforms, Rumanians, Yugoslavs and thin-faced Albanians, as well as wiry Vietnamese and diminutive Cambodians; all had black armbands and were dressed in their formal best-in bald contrast to the Chinese, who wore their ordinary jackets and pants of baggy cotton...
RESTLESS RAY. As Ray Banner sees it, there are two reasons for his success: he started with nothing, and he is short. A thin, brown-haired version of Mickey Rooney, he could not do much about his stature (5 ft. 6 in.). But at 51, Banner has parlayed fast-food franchises into a personal fortune of $25 million. From his headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., he runs 231 Shoney's Big Boy outlets in eleven states. He also owns the 19 Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises for central Kentucky and is starting new chains of his own. Most promising: Captain...