Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington Dateline. That settled, Nelson Rockefeller moved on to tackle a problem of overriding interest in presidential politics: New Hampshire's early-bird primary, to be held March 8, which may make or break Rocky's candidacy. Rockefeller telephoned Senator Styles Bridges, New Hampshire's most powerful Republican. "Hiya, fella," said Rocky on the phone. "You know, one of the hardest things about not being in Washington is that you miss seeing your friends." Even Styles Bridges, as case-hardened a cynic as exists in Washington politics, boggled a bit. He and Nelson Rockefeller had never been...
Africa, too, was complaining about the French. Tunisia last week canceled its customs union with France. The Premier of the new Sudanese Republic threatened to break up France's African community if the French exploded their promised
...broken the old N.A.A. record for distance flight by nearly 50 yds. But Lamore, one of 1,000,000 toxophilites in the booming sport of archery, was just warming up. Half an hour later, using a 130-lb. hand bow, he fired an arrow 850.67 yds. to break the N.A.A. mark...
...alligators), Mississippi stern-wheelers, New England whalers, and a Civil War battle (with neither side winning and no one offended). "Cape Canaveral" will even boast a man-carrying space ship. Said Manhattan's Board of Education President Charles Silver in splendid non sequitur, as the bulldozers prepared to break ground last week: "I have a feeling that history teachers all over the country will be grateful...
...Break Out to Bop. Russia has always been a musical nation, so it came as no surprise that the Russians played well. The stunner was how closely the Russians caught the sense of the music, particularly the sad throb of the blues. There were times, says Ruff, "when the renditions came close to eloquence." Where the Russians fall short is on improvisation. After one demonstration at which Ruff and Mitchell improvised around a current Russian song, a young man asked for the score. "They couldn't understand." says Mitchell, "that except for the basic chords...