Word: duel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even less trouble whipning their Navy counterparts in the preceding duel. Covering the course in 8:04, they ended the race four lengths ahead of the Middies, who settled for a 8:23.7 clocking...
...Brooklyn man arraigned for claiming an exemption for his mother, who had been dead for ten years. His wonderful explanation: "Mother's still alive in my heart." Such items effectively get across the idea to the taxpayer that the odds are heavily against him in his annual duel of wits with the tax collector. And so they are: the Internal Revenue Service, with 58,584 eagle-eyed workers in 1,224 offices, is by far the biggest, most efficient and most successful revenue collection agency in human history. But the U.S. taxpayer is quite a fellow himself...
...crying. Someone should have told him they don't make buildings the way they used to." Out of the squawk box on the agent's desk comes the brassy voice of Chuckles the Chipmunk (Gene Saks) to put the whammy on Murray's whimsy. The ensuing duel between man and machine may be the only known instance in which a squawk box lost a decision. In the final uproarious act Chuckles the Chipmunk does a prostrating parody of a slope-shouldered, splay-fingered humorless comic from TV's human menagerie...
Accent (CBS, 1:30-2 p.m.). A historical drama about the Hamilton-Burr duel, with John Ciardi as host...
Last night's fake Mascle appeared after a five-week duel between the official House organ which uses a red shield, and an unidentified band of conspirators. Previous ersatz newsletters carried black shields and the official Mascle had warned Quincy men to trust only red ones. A spokesman for the official Mascle said he felt "compromised" last night...