Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Battling Bachelor. Halimi, who carries Cerdan's picture with him everywhere, is as tough as any of them. The youngest of 18 children of a poor Jewish postal inspector, he quit school at twelve and became a tailor's apprentice. Five years later he sewed himself a pair of green and red trunks, decorated them with a Star of David, and became a boxer. As an amateur, he was champion of France in 1953, '54 and '55. When he turned pro in 1955, he went back to Algeria to begin his career. Along with every other...
...white pair means putting other trunks on top of them. Now there are no outstanding challengers to bother him. Back in Paris, he will have time to relax and enjoy his $50,000 purse. His fans will find him with Cherif Hamia and the rest of les durs (the tough guys), rolling down the boulevards resplendent in the turtleneck sweater, tight, pointed shoes and busted nose that are the cachet of his trade...
...Tough Medicine. To tighten money, Finance Minister Ichimada asked Japan's central bank to 1) hike its rediscount rate from 7.3% to 8.4%, 2) tighten up reserves of commercial banks to make loans harder to get, and 3) raise deposit requirements on import licenses from 5% to 35% of the shipment's total value, thus immediately tying up an estimated $40 million worth of importers' funds. As a result, imports dropped an average $25 million monthly, were actually slightly behind currency-earning exports for the month of October. Moreover, inflation at home lost some of its steam...
Died. James ("Big Jim") Campbell, 62, tough but mild-mannered general secretary of Britain's 370,000-man National Union of Railwaymen; after a car collision (with a Russian truck) in which N.U.R. President Tom Hollywood, 54, was also fatally injured; in Stalingrad's Defense Square (top British union officials were on a three-week tour of Russia...
...Françoise Mallet-Joris, still only 27, has already proved (The Red Room, TIME, July 16, 1956) that she can reach elbow-deep into suppressed human feelings and dredge up more than enough to fill out her simple framework. She writes about her heavy provincial countrymen with the tough sureness of a Belgian farmer calculating the points of a work horse...