Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gold, flashed in the blazing sun, as they stomped, glided, clapped their hands and leaped about. The clanking of the xylophones rose to fever pitch, then died away. Three griots (West African minstrels )-one in a leather cape adorned with bits of mirror, another carrying a musket, and the third strumming on a one-string gourd guitar-wailed out a chant in honor of the man who for two solid hours had been the center of all the attention. Finally. Sekou Toure. 37. President of the new Republic of Guinea, a trim figure in a European business suit, rose...
Arrested, Hume survived three juries at the Old Bailey-the first was dismissed when the judge fell ill, the second could not agree, the third found him not guilty. Finally, for the crime of illegally disposing of Setty's body, Hume pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to murder, and in 1950 was sentenced to twelve years in prison...
...mile Miami-to-Nassau race. Then they discovered that Mosbacher had not won after all. Tardily, the race committee determined that the winner on corrected time was a 40-ft., fiber-glass-hulled yawl named Rhubarb. Not only that, but Rhubarb's sister ship, Southern Star II, was third. Both brand new, the two boats were the work of 39-year-old William H. Tripp Jr.-a new designer who is currently the talk of ocean sailors, and who may prove to be the first real challenger in decades to the long dominance of Philip Rhodes and Olin Stephens...
Helping Hand. Fighters are his particular passion. "If I hadn't grabbed that wire, I'd have probably been a third-rate pug myself," he says cheerfully. Joe Louis and Billy Conn are among his cronies, and Carmen Basilic, onetime middleweight champion, is a hero. "Oh, that Basilio!" he enthuses. "Did you see the way his lamp went out in that last Robinson fight? Why, he's all guts. That little bastard will never go hungry as long as I'm eating...
...investment bankers Goldman, Sachs & Co. Brennan, 30, will also run a player-conditioning program during spring training for the Cincinnati Redlegs. ¶ Australia's talented batsmen had no trouble at all surpassing England's 510 runs in their second innings without losing a wicket, won their third of the best-of-five test matches to regain the Ashes, symbol of cricket supremacy between the two nations since 1882. Wailed London's Daily Mail: "The worst and most humiliating failure by an English overseas team for many a decade." ¶In Boston, Air Force Lieut. Bill Dellinger...