Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal for an Anglo-Soviet nonaggression treaty -that he had not bothered to mention to Macmillan during more than 20 hours of supposedly intimate and frank discussion. The Cold War. From the moment Macmillan learned of Khrushchev's speech, relations between the two Premiers became a contest in coldness. In such a contest, Harold Macmillan, who prides himself on his "unflappability," was at no disadvantage. At a British embassy reception the night after Khrushchev's speech, while Mikoyan was praising his master for the stir he had created, Macmillan publicly remarked: "This is an extraordinary method of diplomacy...
...world figure-skating championships in Colorado Springs, two-time Champion David Jenkins, 22, fell behind in the compulsory figures but recouped with a fine free-skating performance to keep his title. The women's division was no contest at all for green-eyed Carol Heiss, 19, of Ozone Park, N.Y., who romped off with her fourth straight championship, hinted later that she might retire soon from competition...
...Hill was not the only fixed winner in the Journal contest. Another was Robert Alvich, 53, a hotel desk clerk. A chronic puzzle contestant. Alvich bit on an anonymous telephone caller's proposal to make him a cinch winner. Following orders, Alvich phoned Detroit, where another anonymous voice gave him the answer to the Journal's current Cashword Puzzle. Sure enough, Alvich won $2,950 and. still following instructions, wired $2,000 to one "Harry Valk'' in Detroit. Meantime, a Portland disk jockey. Fitzgerald ("Eager") Beaver, admitted that he had been similarly...
...Portland papers called in the police and the FBI. In Detroit authorities learned that "Harry Valk" was Harry H. Balk, a shadowy freelance booking agent who had not only collected the prize money wired from Portland but had won $4,400 on his own last December in a puzzle contest in the Chicago American. Last week Balk was hibernating in Brooklyn. The probability that the fix was bigger than Balk arose when Robert F. Kennedy, counsel for the U.S. Senate rackets committee, disclosed that racketeers had attempted to bribe a committee witness by guaranteeing...
...Guilty Defendant. As the Portland story clattered over the press wires, many another newspaper began to turn a wary eye on puzzle contests. President Bernard Ridder of the St. Paul Pioneer Press made a worried call to Portland, then canceled his contest and turned its records over to the FBI.*At week's end the FBI was joined in its investigation by the U.S. Postal Service...