Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Musicians are still welcome to participate in the program. Rehearsals are generally held on Wednesday evenings at 7:15 in Sanders Theatre, with the exception of the coming week...
...been raging through the provinces of Kiangsu and Anhwei, Fukien and Kwangtung, then over Honan, swirling down the North and West rivers toward heavily populated Canton (pop. 1,500,000) itself. Hundreds of thousands of townspeople were pressed into working on the embankments, and the dikes of Canton held...
Like the school bully putting the new boy in his place, Pancho Gonzales has used his bazooka drives and serves to humiliate every fair-haired lad who quit amateur tennis to take a crack at his professional title, which Pancho has held since 1954. Fairest-haired of all the challengers has been Aussie Lew Hoad, a blond muscleman with the forearm of a weight lifter, who challenged Gonzales in 1958 after conquering the amateur world. As usual, Gonzales treated the newcomer like an upstart kid, routed Hoad 51-36 on their first barnstorming tour of professional matches...
MERGER TERMS were approved by directors of General Dynamics Corp. (1958 sales: $1.5 billion) and Chicago's Material Service Corp. (1958 sales: $114.4 million), which will become an autonomous division of General Dynamics. Deal calls for stock of Material Service (building materials, concrete, coal), almost all held by Chairman Henry Crown and his family, to be exchanged for approximately $125 million worth of General Dynamics stock...
...flown every type of Air Force plane, has been checked out to pilot the huge KC-135 jet tanker. Quesada wields more power than any U.S. air administrator before him: all the duties of the old Civil Aeronautics Administration, plus the safety-rule-making powers once held by the Civil Aeronautics Board...