Word: billing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that, Amiable Anastas clearly had a bill of goods to sell the U.S. Unmistakably, his was the pitch of an ever-reasonable, just-plain-folks Russian competitor bent on straightening out a few minor differences. Unquestionably, his method was part of Russia's newest device -the soft sell that began last year with the assignment of Ambassador Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov to Washington, polished thereafter with headline-catching informal talks between newly ingratiating Nikita Khrushchev and such prominent U.S. callers as Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey...
...Farrell 500-yard run, coach Bill McCurdy said last night, the Crimson contestant, whether he is captain A1 Gordon, Dave Brahms, or Zab Warren, should do well in a field which New England's finest middle-distance runners. Joel Landau should make a good showing in the high hurdles, even though he will be up against Lee Calhoun, Elias Gilbert, and Francis Washington, perhaps the U.S.'s three best in that event...
...five men he sent letters asking: "If it would be convenient, could you possibly send me a short statement on your participation in the battle? Yours very truly, Bill Frazer." Addressees: Admiral William F. Halsey, in 1944 commander of the U.S. Third Fleet; Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet and the Central Philippines Attack Force; and three defeated Japanese sea fighters-Vice Admirals Jisaburo Ozawa, Takeo Kurita and Kiyohide Shima...
...Happy for Me." Bill wrote in English to the Japanese admirals, addressed his letters merely to "Imperial Naval Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan." But last week as he prepared to write his paper, Bill had a prize to include...
...Bill Frazer hopes for more letters. A reply from Admiral Kurita would be particularly valuable; he has been criticized for turning back into San Bernardino Strait, north of Samar when he might have dealt a telling blow to a U.S. force inferior in speed and firepower. But Shima offers the schoolboy historian an understandable summing up of Japanese hesitancy at Leyte: "A further defeat meant to Japan no longer incidental losses but loss of life itself...