Word: matches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever to take the Red army's salute as guest of honor beside Khrushchev and Marshal Malinovsky atop the Lenin-Stalin mausoleum in Red Square. "Nasser Reviews Red Army," crowed the Cairo press. Khrushchev entertained him at his dacha, at the Bolshoi ballet, at a Lenin Stadium soccer match, at a whole round of banquets. Taking time off only to pray at Moscow's mosque, Nasser drank in the flattery with all the appetite for acclaim of the Middle East's biggest balcony-lover...
Malagodi's party, which has a proud past, is today one of the smallest (13 seats) in Italy's Chamber of Deputies, cannot muster sufficient money or manpower to match the lavish campaign efforts of its bigger rivals. To compensate, hard-driving Giovanni Malagodi has taken up a device foreign to Italian politics-the whistle-stop tour. Since last October, traveling alone, he has spoken, rain or shine, in hundreds of cities, towns and villages from Sicily to Piedmont. In the process, his level, rasping voice has won more attention than that of any other Italian politician...
Increasingly, sponsors (and viewers) have turned to the bigger, more lavish, monthly shows, which can afford better scripts, hire more expensive directors, afford big-name stars. The spectaculars are increasing in number, and, at their best, have mounted shows that the weeklies cannot match. As for their worst, TV is discovering what Hollywood has long known: if viewers must watch a second-rate drama, they would rather watch name stars playing...
...golfers from Penn State, one from Yale, and one from Boston College advanced to the semi-finals in match play yesterday. B.C.'s Charlie Volpone, who has been giving the Crimson a lot of trouble for the past few years, will face Ted Weiss of Yale today in the first semi-final match...
Volpone defeated Wendell Long of Princeton, 2 and 1, in his first round match on Sunday, and went on to eliminate another Princeton golfer, Charles Dudley, 3 and 1. Davidson defeated both of his opponents by 2 and 1 scores. Felus won his matches, 3 and 2, and 1 up on the 19th hole...