Word: cards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Report Card for Congress
...most successful bridge players are neither the relentlessly bold nor the incorrigibly careful, but those who know, through a fine combination of card sense, experience and clear thinking, when to be bold and when to be cautious. Old Pro Charles Goren, apostle of point-count bidding, has made many a bold thrust over the years, but in the American Contract Bridge League's yearly Life Masters Pair tournament at Bal Harbour, Fla. last week, he showed that caution some times pays...
...only score card at Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds last week was the Bible. Speakers' platforms disguised the diamonds; flower banks decked the pitching mounds; burlap mountains, artificial waterfalls hid second and third bases. New York had never seen a convention so big; even Billy Graham's Yankee Stadium throng last year-100,000, and 10,000 turned away-was small by comparison. From 48 states and 122 foreign countries, Jehovah's Witnesses had gathered 194,000 strong. For eight days they packed both ballparks in a "giant Bible school." Through steamy rain they went...
...trouble started when Premier David Ben-Gurion's government announced that anyone may claim Jewish nationality, and be called a Jew on his identification card, who declares "in good faith" that he is a Jew and professes no other religion. Children, said the government, could be registered as Jews if both parents wished it, even if the mother was an unconverted gentile...
...shadow of Ottawa's National War Memorial one morning last week, three little Canadian boys gravely examined the card on a wreath just placed there by a visitor from the U.S. "What's it say?" asked one. An older passer-by read it for them. "It says," said this man, "'the President of the United States.'" Then he added quietly: "Bless his heart...