Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost as soon as they landed in New York, the seven visiting Soviet strongmen began to wonder whether weight lifting in the U.S. is a sport or a sideshow. Dutifully they drank Cokes and made muscles for Manhattan photographers: dutifully they helped hoist "Miss Body Beautiful" aloft for enterprising Chicago newsmen. Light-Heavyweight Trofim Lomakin let one publicity man con him into posing on horseback until a comrade muttered: "Cossack!" Bantamweight Vladimir Stogov, an army chauffeur, took a turn behind the wheel of a new Ford, fled in terror when he pushed a button and the retractable hardtop began...
Only ten years ago such patients as 36-year-old Campanella had no hope of recovery. Today they can be saved by wonder drugs from the infections that once doomed them. And they can be brought back to productive lives. Reason: rehabilitation, which has grown spectacularly into an entire new "third phase" of medicine-after diagnosis and treatment. More than 2,230,000 disabled Americans, recovering from disease or accidents, sorely need its help in getting back to life. Most in need: paraplegics (both legs disabled), quadriplegics (both arms and legs) and hemiplegics (one side of the body). For them...
...Wonder. The big snag in the plan was the top Conservative, tough old (69) ex-President Laureano Gómez. Angry at the moderate wing of his party for supporting his ouster by Rojas in 1953, Gómez ruled its members out of the running as joint presidential candidate, thereby ruled out every top-quality candidate the Conservatives had. Weeks of bickering finally convinced Gómez that Liberal Lleras was the best choice...
Lleras' qualifications for the job are already on record. An able, respected journalist, he became Colombia's "boy wonder" Minister of the Interior (Premier) at 29, stepped up to the presidency ten years later. He served as head of the creaky old Pan American Union after World War II, created the efficient, effective Organization of American States, then was named president of Bogotá's University of the Andes. Two years ago he resigned the university job to lead the opposition to Dictator Rojas. Before his own acceptance last week, Lleras had ruefully spelled out the qualifications...
Visitors sighted in with far more ease than their hapless hosts. When the Giants' Danny O'Connell collected a pair of homers in a single game, the Milwaukee Journal, which knew him as a hitless wonder when he played for the Braves, was moved to protest: "Any time O'Connell hits two home runs in one game, something's wrong. In his three and a half years here, with normal foul lines of 320 ft., he hit exactly NONE." Then the Chicago Cubs came to town. They demolished the Dodgers, 15-2, and hit four homers...