Word: panels
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There were other equally egregious judgments. In the women's 3-meter diving competition, the East German judge on a panel of seven generously gave the D.D.R. entrants the top three scores. Other judges saw matters differently, and the East German girls finished third, ninth and tenth in the finals. In the prone small-bore-rifle competition, Victor Auer of the U.S. appeared to have outpointed North Korea's Ho Jun Li, 598-595, despite raucous heckling by Li's countrymen, who steadfastly ignored the officials' reprimands. When the shooting stopped, the Koreans demanded an examination...
...Schick asserted that its Lite Touch shaver for women would not cut or nick. Its proof was an interoffice memo describing results of informal tests conducted by a panel of female employees. The tests were made after the FTC asked Schick to back up its plug...
...Quixote of insult comics, Levant was unexcelled. He became a regular on the radio panel Information Please, where his cranky voice identified almost any piece of music after one bar. His sallow, discontented expression became familiar to audiences when he appeared in a series of films. The movies varied from An American in Paris through Humoresque to the Gershwin bio Rhapsody in Blue, in which he played himself. In a sense, that was his perpetual role: the man whose pan was not dead but dying -of pain distinctly complicated by ennui. It was a role that he later expanded...
...Safe. There is a general feeling on the panel that both candidates must beware of assassination attempts this year. "It's not safe to campaign any more," says Insurance Man Herman Allen of Indianapolis. More than half of those interviewed would actually prefer, partly for safety reasons, that the candidates campaign by television rather than by touring the nation. But Real Estate Broker Louis L. Lord of Auburn, N.Y., argues that "you don't really know a candidate till you have him on your home grounds...
...government leaders that Peterson met, he says, are at once "policymakers, negotiators and executors. They set the priorities and allocate the resources." By contrast, the U.S. side of prospective bargains would have to be fulfilled largely by executives of private companies, not the Government. Peterson is naming a U.S. panel to work out ways for Washington and private companies to coordinate negotiations with the Soviets...