Word: toni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike Bellotti, however, he had no feel for the ethnic interests and managed to bungle the business whenever it came up. His wife Toni antagonized the Irish when she criticized the Capital washerwomen, and he mortified the Puritans among the Yankees when he embraced the now indicated "Iron Duke of Ludlow," House Speaker Thompson, only shortly after calling for his removal. He allowed former Senate President John E. Powers, a good Irish Catholic, to make a statement on his behalf that accused Bellotti of trying to take over the party, a statement that only infuriated the Italians and appalled...
...learn the art of French cooking, Egon showed a fine flair for mousse-making-whenever he could be persuaded to come in out of the snow. At 18, he won all three Alpine events at the Austrian junior championships, and experts began calling him "the new Toni Sailer." But then he dislocated a shoulder on the eve of the 1960 Olympics...
...cubic meters were dumped on the ski courses; another 20,000 cubic meters were set aside for "emergency withdrawals." Six huge snowmaking machines, imported from the U.S., worked night and day, spraying ice crystals on the bobsled and sled runs. Finally, last week, Austria's own Toni Sailer, who won all three Alpine skiing events at the 1956 Olympics, took a trial run down the men's down hill, pronounced it "fantastic-like out of a test tube"-and all of Innsbruck heaved a mighty sigh of relief...
...Fantastic," said Toni Sailer, who swept every gold medal in men's Alpine skiing at the 1956 Olympics. "I would bet on her to win at Innsbruck." Paris' Le Monde rhapsodized over Jean's "sang-froid," her sureness, her precision, and L'Equipe celebrated her "sweetness of manner, happy healthiness, and dazzling smile." Jean was busy talking about teaching school and joining the Peace Corps, and when people asked her why she skied so much faster than everybody else, she just smiled sweetly and said: "Gee, I don't know...
Born. To Jordan's King Hussein, 28, and Muna al Hussein, 23, formerly Toni Gardiner, of Suffolk, England: a second child, second son; in Amman. Name: Prince Feisal, after Hussein's cousin, King Feisal of Iraq, murdered in 1958 by revolutionaries...