Word: matches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joining other senior Royal Air Force brass in a submachine-gun target match, Britain's sporting Chief of Air Staff Sir Dermot Boyle sprayed much lead to little avail, wound up 21st in an eagle-eyed field of 22 officers. He took his crushing defeat stoically: "Either I'm a very bad shot or there's a great deal of insubordination in the air force...
...lady's outfit that could have triggered a riot in Japan a generation ago, comely Crown Princess Michiko took to a tennis court with Crown Prince Akihito in their first public sports outing since their marriage last April. She was paired with Akihito in a mixed-doubles match with other members of the Tokyo Lawn Tennis Club. Michiko displayed grace, stamina-and lace panties quaintly peeping out from under her "Michi-style" tennis suit...
...songs (Anything Goes) and cool (Why Can't You Behave), as well as specialty numbers, e.g., Good Little Girls Go to Heaven ("and smart little girls go to Bergdorf's"). Her primary gifts are a voice with volume where she wants it and a figure to match. She can be sultry and sexy, playful and cute, lonely and sad, all without losing her cultivated air of stylishness...
...truth arising "from the friction of friendly minds." Thus the University becomes almost a playing field where issues of possibly eternal salvation and damnation are gentlemanly tossed around by polite opponents. The danger with this method, however, is clear. If University discussion takes on the atmosphere of a sporting match, too often momentous ideas can become mere playthings...
...Minister. Last week the committee broke into applause as Finance Minister Antoine Pinay finished his report. He had good news: France is economically healthier than it has been in three decades. Spurred by last December's 17.5% devaluation of the franc, exports are now almost high enough to match imports, producing a tidy surplus in the balance of payments. Industrial production is on the way up again. The government has cut its heavy budget deficit (caused largely by the Algerian war) to half the 1,200 billion francs predicted earlier. The government had expected prices to rise 7% after...