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Khrushchev's statement did not quite jibe with the announcement, .made the same week in satellite Czechoslovakia, that 34,000 men will shortly be dropped from the Czech Red army. But Communist delegations from Czechoslovakia. Albania, Bulgaria. Hungary. East Germany, Mongolia, Korea, Poland, listening intently to Khrushchev's words, found a message there. The applause, according to Tass, was "tempestuous and prolonged...
...Half a mile from the finish in the last of nine races for the Syce Cup and the Long Island Sound women's sailing championship, pint-sized Toni Monetti, 18, who won the midget title only five years ago, messed up a jibe and lost most of the lead she had built up on the first leg. Without wasting a moment, the Skidmore College sophomore went forward to untangle the sheets of her Lightning's big spinnaker. She finished in time to sail home third, earning just enough points to bring the Syce Cup home...
...great fear was art that did not honestly jibe with its model, life. "Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and, I think, Japheth. The only thing Ham noted was that his father was a drunkard; he completely lost sight of the fact that Noah was a genius, that he built an ark and saved the world. Writing people ought not imitate...
...bestselling 1929 novel of World War I, Death of a Hero) claims to have started with an open mind. But in the course of his four years of research, he turned up many claims by Lawrence and his enthusiastic biographers (Lowell Thomas, Robert Graves) that did not seem to jibe with the facts. The chief of these was Lawrence's boast that he had once been offered the post of High Commissioner for Egypt. There was no record of such an offer in writing, and from the testimony of living persons who might know the facts, Aldington decided that...
There was good reason why the indicators did not jibe. Each uses stocks of its own choosing, dropping them when they become inactive or cease to be representative of an industry, and substituting new ones. Of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow-Jones average today, more than one-third were not on the list in 1929. Among the newcomers are such giants as Du Pont, United Aircraft and A.T. & T. Among those dropped, for varying reasons: American Sugar Refining, Mack Truck, North American Corp. As an example of what such omissions and substitutions can mean statistically...