Word: racing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balloting in the General Assembly was suspended for two weeks after a see-saw race developed. Turkey's three-vote edge, its best showing so far, gave the West new bargaining strength in the intense diplomatic maneuvering for the seat on the 11-nation Council...
...years later the U.S. is still running a poor second in the two-entry space race. And in high-level Washington last week, there still were no detectable signs of urgency about the U.S.'s space lag. The President, his advisers reported, was convinced that the U.S. space effort must be kept "within reason." Vice President Richard Nixon assured a press conference that the nation's space effort was "moving along at a reasonably good pace." Herbert F. York, the Defense Department's director of research and engineering, dismissed the Soviet lead in the space race...
...with a butcher's apron, work a steer or heifer out of the herd, and stun it with an airgun slug. Then, slaughtering and quartering the animal in less than half an hour, Roden would stow his kill in the trunk and back seat of the Mercedes and race back to Düsseldorf. There in the morning, he offered his customers fresh cuts of beef, complete with faked, blue government-inspection stamps...
...start small businesses and enjoy Canada's life. The standard of living is slightly lower (just behind the U.S.), and many prices are higher, but the easy accessibility of fine hunting and fishing makes up for a lot. "They figure they'll live longer. The rat race isn't as bad as back home," explains one official...
Whitehead's decision to get out of the world race was dictated partly by an arterial condition in his legs that makes it painful for him to move, partly by success -his 1956 book, The FBI Story, was a bestseller. But more important was a desire to go back home. He left the A.P. in 1956 to become the New York Herald Tribune's Washington bureau chief, quit in 1957 and toured the world gathering material for a book on international crime, finally realized that where he really wanted to be was back in Knoxville...