Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women's half, the story was more of the same. In the first all-foreign women's final since 1937, Brazil's Maria Bueno, 19, the dark-haired Wimbledon champion, beat Christine Truman, Britain's power-hitting six-footer. It was the first time in the 79-year history of the U.S. championships that no American appeared in either title match...
...What should I do with this?" It was a cable handed him a week earlier by CBS Correspondent Peter Kalischer. The surest way to get anything resembling an accurate story was to make a flying circuit of the battle area, and that, as TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow reported (see FOREIGN NEWS), involved a heart-thumping flight through monsoon storm clouds, hairbreadth nighttime landings on muddy air strips marked only by kerosene pots...
...Rostov-on-Don, is 51 and has a son at Moscow University. About 5 ft. 9 in. tall, he has brown eyes that narrow to slits when he laughs and give him an oriental look. He is an aero-dynarnicist who turned to astrophysics after World War II. Foreign colleagues give him top rating in his field, but they know almost nothing about his personal life. He often travels abroad, is always affable, but does not let his hair down. Said one British scientist last week: "After all, if he had too many drinks with us alone, he might...
IMPORT BANS against foreign-made men's and boys' clothing are being instituted by Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Union invoked contract clause that prohibits makers from handling apparel not made within union jurisdiction, will force three large New York-based chains-Ripley, Howard, Crawford (totaling 177 stores)-to halt imports of West German woolen loden coats...
...Farnborough Air Show, 50 miles southwest of London, British flyers put on a dazzling display for 8,000 foreign visitors last week. Fourteen Hawker Hunter jet fighters looped through a whisker-tight formation. Two twin-jet Scimitar fighter-bombers barreled in for a landing, folded their wings just in time to allow a third Scimitar to fly in head-on between them. But all the planes on display and the superb acrobatics could not hide the fact that Britain's aircraft industry is losing altitude fast. Even the empire-loving London Daily Express warned its readers...