Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon Sasha was fed up with his homeland. From his technical school he stole 35 rubles, some stamps, and a pair of wire-cutters, headed for the frontier between Russia and Turkey. He got within a few yards of his goal. One night last November, as Sasha tried to clip his way through the barbed-wire frontier fence, a flare shot into the sky, alarm bells began to jangle, and border guards grabbed Sasha. Moralized Izvestia: "This character, a quite exceptional phenomenon in our country, has become a renegade, betrayed his friends, parents and country. Let him answer before Soviet...
...banks will pay $18,000-$20,000 a month for the service, and after the first year, when the full start-up costs are recovered, they will begin showing some savings-though they won't estimate how much. Besides whittling their direct costs, the nine banks will also clip a day off their old account posting time, be able to offer better and cheaper service to customers. Programming ahead for the computer pools, Booz, Allen's Neal J. Dean, partner in charge of management information systems, sees the day when all banks will cease being banks as people...
Tiger captain Art Hyland ranks sixth among the Ivy's leading scorers, shooting at a 13.7-points-per-game clip, and is a fine playmaker. Joining Hyland at guard will be Chuck Berling, who returns to the lineup after a semester's ineligibility. Berling scored 17 points against Brown, and aided Bradley in controlling the boards...
Andre took his triumph easily. He assured all who would listen that he has no intention of beginning a concert career until he finishes high school, and that his experiments with tone row composition would never take his attention from his playing. Beaming endlessly above his clip-on bow tie, he posed for a few hundred pictures, then sat down with his mother to watch all the excitement he had stirred up. "How do you feel, Andre?" said Bernstein. "Could you go out there right now and do it again?'' "Sure," said Andre, and he meant...
...another try. The field in the $66,000 Grand National stock car race (distance: 500 miles) included such daredevils as Glenn ("Fireball") Roberts, Paul Goldsmith and Len Sutton. But in prerace speed trials, Gurney maneuvered his hopped-up 1963 Ford around the twisting, 2.7-mile circuit at a record clip of 99.5 m.p.h.. and rival drivers tabbed him as the man to beat. "If his machine can take the punishment," said Joe Weatherly, the 1962 U.S. stock car champion, "there'll be a lot of us chasing...