Word: matches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scored Columbia's only other victory by pinning Dick Steinzig, 5-0. The most lopsided score of the day was provided by Rick Sullivan, at 167. Sullivan bested Louis Systosato 11-0. Another easy win went to Ted Robbins in the unlimited division. Robbins took a 5 0 match from Colombia's R.McCoal...
...argument that it would be needlessly wasteful to match Soviet ICBMs with Atlases and Titans is convincing, but if the U.S. is not going to match the U.S.S.R. "missile for missile" during the next few years, the Administration has two urgent tasks cut out for it. One is to convince the world-Communists, neutralists, allies and the U.S.'s own citizens -that the missile gap will not mean a defense gap. The other is to push Minuteman and Polaris as fast as funds and priorities can push them. If there must be a missile gap, however efficiently...
York and Newport luxury. A gangling, tree-tall adolescent with a huge head topped by unruly red hair, Alec inevitably got the nickname "Pin," learned to play tennis well enough to reach the quarterfinals of the Newport Invitational when he was 16. He prepared for the match (against Wilmer Allison) by drinking till dawn, then amazed himself by taking a 4-1 lead in the second set. At this point his hangover caught up with him. Says Cushing: "I had a total blackout. When I tried to throw the ball up for service, I almost went flat on my face...
...fast are earnings picking up to match the recovery? From U.S. business last week came fourth-quarter reports that showed profits rising fast enough in many cases to offset the previous slowdown and turn 1958 into a fine year. After limping along 33% behind 1957 for the first nine months, Monsanto Chemical Co. reported the best fourth quarter in history, so good that full-year earnings totaled $1.55 per share, only 7.7% behind last year. Philco's fourth quarter nearly doubled last year's rate. Seeburg Corp. announced 54? a share in the first quarter of its fiscal...
...Danube. Passing under Belgrade castle, the soused "Flower of European Diplomacy" is spotted by Comrade-Gunner Popovic, who takes the diplomats for hostile Czech paratroopers. Hoping to distinguish himself, possibly even to win his country's "Order of Mercy and Plenty with Crossed Haystacks," Popovic puts a safety match to the castle cannon and rips the log-riding diplomats asunder with a mixed charge of "beer bottle tops, discarded trouser buttons, cigarette-tins and fragments of discarded railway train...