Word: billing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four freshman swimmers set a new team record for the 200-yard free style relay Friday in winning a meet at Brookline High School. With a time of 1:32.3 seconds, Steve Marglin, Bill Zentgraf, Bob Kaufmann, and Norris Eisenberg clipped more than three seconds off the old record...
...rule under which debate could be ended by two-thirds of the Senators voting. But the new rule had a fatal flaw: it provided a method for cloture on any Senate measure-but not on a motion to consider the measure. That meant a motion to consider any bill or resolution could be endlessly filibustered. In 1949 Senate liberals put up a hard fight to get a workable cloture rule. The result was today's Rule XXII...
...confined to the small southern city of Mende (pop. 7,700) in one of the most impoverished areas of France. Within months, Mende was a boom town. A telephone operator had to be hired whose sole job was handling Joanovici's calls to world capitals. His monthly phone bill ran to 600,000 francs; he spent 30,000 francs daily on entertaining; he contributed heavily to local sports and charities and was on the best of terms with everyone, from the prefect to the policeman assigned to guard...
...relationship protected by law in twelve states. Last week, "greatly disturbed" because New York State does not grant its working newsmen this legal safeguard, New York State Assemblyman Edwyn E. Mason proposed a bill that would make reporters immune from prosecution for concealing their sources...
...World War II battle for Leyte Gulf was the "greatest naval battle of all time," according to Historian Samuel Eliot Morison* and to 16-year-old Bill Frazer the sea fight seemed a fine subject for a U.S. history-class term paper. But the skinny (5 ft. 11 in., 128 lbs.), scholarly San Fernando (Calif.) Senior High School junior was dissatisfied with the research material available-he knew of only about 250 books on the Pacific phase of World War II. So Bill who six years ago bought a set of lead models of Japanese fighting ships with his newspaper...