Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George Gallup's moistened finger has sensed a freshening Republican breeze that could promise more campaign thunder and lightning than the Democrats had predicted. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Changing Campaign. And nowhere is a worrying Democrat more worried about changing political pressures than in California. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS' cover story, Just Plain...
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Tacks & Tactics. At 63, Corny Shields's hair is sail-white, but he is still the crafty helmsman and stern crew commander who, in half a century of competition, may well have won more races and honors than any other sailor in history (TIME cover, July 27, 1953). Competing in his first formal race since a 1956 heart attack, Investment Banker Shields worked up to part-time captain by stages-first by skippering her trial horse Nereus, then advising from Columbia's tender, finally plotting strategy from the boat's cockpit for regular Helmsman Briggs Cunningham, topflight...
...Harlem's Althea Gibson (TIME cover, Aug. 26, 1957), 31, defending her U.S. national championship at Forest Hills, defeated California's 22-year-old Darlene Hard (3-6, 6-1, 6-2) and announced that she will retire from amateur tennis for a year to sing professionally. Australia's Ashley Cooper, 21, shrugged off an ankle injury in the last set to defeat 23-year-old Aussie Mai Anderson (6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 10-8, 8-6), defending champion, in the national men's championship; for the first time in the 78-year history...
...buying had not only sent up the price but had put Marcus and associates in a strong position to squeeze the short sellers, who, knowing the actual value of Artloom from its balance sheet, had sold 35,900 shares of stock short, now had to pay high to cover their sales. (Delighted at the high price, four veteran officials up to last report had unloaded more than 11,000 shares...