Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week and flew to Turkey on an urgent mission. Loy Wesley Henderson. 65, the State Department's ace troubleshooter for the Middle East, was off to meet Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes. Iraq's King Feisal and Jordan's King Hussein to hammer together a common policy against the threat of Communist infiltration in Syria (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Four Freedoms & Unity. What Dr. Fry, together with 20 discussion-group leaders, 20 recorders and three theological consultants, had accomplished last week at the Third Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation was to hammer out 51 "theses" representing a meeting of minds of 50 million Lutherans on the role of their church in the world...
...week from Oslo to Ohio, track and field stars ignored midsummer heat, coolly cracked records. In Cleveland, Mrs. Olga Fikotova Connolly, the ex-Czech Olympic star who broke the Iron Curtain to marry U.S. Olympic Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly, scored at a national Amateur Athletic Union meet by breaking the U.S. women's discus record. Her throw: 147 ft. 8 in. In Naantali, Finland, England's Derek Ibbotson ran his fourth sub-four-minute mile (3:58.7), was followed by Finland's Olavi Vuorisalo (3:59.1). In Oslo, Pennsylvania's Josh Culbreath broke...
MUTUAL BROADCASTING, in the past a money-losing system, is being taken over from RKO Teleradio Pictures, Inc., a General Tire & Rubber Co. subsidiary, by a syndicate headed by Oilman Armand Hammer, who will become chairman, and Los Angeles Radio Executive Paul Roberts, who will become president. Group paid about $750,000 for network's good will and advertising contracts with 480 U.S., Canadian stations...
...central Java last week, several million illiterate voters punched a nail through a printed symbol representing one of 69 political parties. At day's end one symbol had the winning number of nail holes. The symbol: the hammer and sickle of the Indonesian Communist Party. The Communists had won an overwhelming victory in four key areas of Indonesia's most populous island...