Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...structure of other countries, etc.) and six months of training in the latest, most sophisticated techniques in electronic and audio surveillance, as well as new tricks in assassination technique, photography, crowd swaying, key copying. It is not an easy course; each year half the students fail. The 20 who finish successfully are sent immediately into West Germany and other Western lands as resident agents; since 1955, roughly 120 of these master spies have been sent out from East Berlin to enter East Germany's highest foreign service...
Even a guided revolution is hard to control once it begins to roll. A week after the U.S. stationed warships outside the Dominican Republic's three-mile limit to help finish the dynasty of slain Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo,* it found itself caught in a power struggle. On one side was the middle-roading, anti-Trujillo National Civic Union (U.C.N.), backed by an aroused civilian populace that went on strike to support it. On the other was Trujillo's powerful armed forces, under General Pedro Rodriguez Echaverria...
...Chicago. 35-year-old Carter was pitted against tough Ray Bluth of St. Louis in the final round of the World's Invitational Bowling Tournament, for first-place prize money of $7,500. Trailing by 54 pins with two games to go, Carter staged a typically whirlwind finish, rolling games of 249 and 258 (to Bluth's 223 and 190). His 64-game average of 221 set a new scoring record for the tournament; the victory was his fourth in the five years that the tournament has been held. The only time Don Carter failed...
...Raty and said: "This is too close. We'd better break out and force the pace." Raty moved out with Story, but he soon found himself dropping behind the fleet-footed Oregon State runner. By the time the leaders had rounded the 17th green and headed for the finish line, Story had a 50-yd. lead. The rest of the field was strung out all across the golf course-with the last stragglers as much as six minutes behind. Story's winning time (19 min. 46.6 sec.) was the fifth fastest in the history of the race...
...Crimson opened with an easy win in the medley relay, as Bob Kaufmann, Frank Wood, Bob Price, and Allen Berg churned over the 400 yard course in 3:54, to finish more than a lap ahead of their opponents. Kaufmann, who is still recovering from a bout of mononucleosis, swam only in the relays, passing up the backstroke and the individual medley...