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Peculiar Position. It was U.S. Player B. Jay Becker who, on the third day of the tournament, first spotted "something highly improper." Playing against Reese and Schapiro, Becker noticed that his opponents were holding their cards in a peculiar fashion: both Britons kept varying the position of their fingers; sometimes only one finger showed at the back of the fan of cards, sometimes there were two, or three-bunched together or splayed. Later, Becker watched Reese and Schapiro play against other teams. At first, he could not believe his eyes; it was inconceivable that two such highly regarded professionals should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Games: Five-Finger Exercise | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...Mills and a majority of the Ways and Means Committee had bottled up, was finally added as a Senate amendment to the House-passed Social Security amendments, thus by-passing the Ways and Means Committee, though it failed to be passed after that. At the same time, however, the Becker (school prayer) amendment, which would unquestionably have passed if it had gotten to the floor, was bottled up in the Judiciary Committee by New York liberal Emmanuel Cellar. After the initial uproar and intense agitation for the amendment had died down, Cellar held hearings on the bill...

Author: By Thomas C. Horne, | Title: A Congressman on Congressional Reform | 5/20/1965 | See Source »

Sounds familiar? Blonde, bullion, gilded body. Of course, the criminal Midas who sent the Triumph in for refinishing is Gert Frobe of Goldfinger. But Director Jean Becker, unwilling to risk all on one reckless stab at success by association, has also equipped Backfire with the Breathless team of Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. This time sparks fly only sporadically between them, partly because Actress Seberg?whose beauty and talent are unevenly matched?misbehaves with the studied seductiveness of a schoolgirl trying out her first pair of heels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Three-in-One Thriller | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...Covenant with Death, Becker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Apr. 2, 1965 | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...Covenant with Death, Becker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 19, 1965 | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

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