Word: catches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first half was a see-saw battle most of the way, with the Crimson achieving a 32-33 advantage in the last minute. The varsity gradually increased its margin to 60 to 51, but then began to miss easy the opportunity to catch up and win the contest...
...thin, small, birdlike man, peering through heavy horn-rimmed glasses, was presented to reporters in West Berlin last week as the biggest spy catch in years. His name: Siegfried Dombrowski. His former job: deputy chief of East Germany's military espionage organization, innocently called "Administration for Coordination." Dombrowski, 42, told newsmen he had defected "several months ago," and brought with him long lists of agents and dispatches that he had turned over to the "proper Western authorities." The total East German apparatus, he declared, involved control of 60,000 agents, with 13,000 of his own agents working undercover...
...economy, the National Industrial Conference Board last week assembled business leaders at "Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. Their theme: "Recovery: how strong, how long?" Their conclusion: recovery should continue well into 1959. Even as they met, there were indications that while some parts of the economy have stopped to catch their breath, others continued to spring along in a sort of relay race...
...last October, that election, while duly reported in TIME and elsewhere, was overshadowed by news from Rome: the death and burial of Pope Pius XII and the election of Pope John XXIII. Last week Presiding Bishop Arthur Carl Lichtenberger was formally installed in his new post, and news could catch up with him in greater detail. In this issue TIME introduces the grocer's son from Oshkosh, Wis. who is now chief spokesman for 3,274,867 Episcopalians in the U.S. and abroad. Said he: "If this were still an aristocratic church, it would never have elected...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A good forgery's beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, and the villain of this slicked-up true story dazzles hundreds of shopkeepers before the T-men catch...