Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finishing third in the Ryder 440, the Crimson's Larry Repsher demonstrated excellent speed but a small knowledge of indoor racing tactics. Boxed in for most of the race, Repsher went to the outside with 100 yards remaining, passing one man but failing to reach the leaders...
...Officially last week the U.S. was still plowing doggedly on at Geneva, determined to reach agreement. U.S. Delegate James J. Wadsworth, whose United Nations background has made him sensitive to the world-opinion problem, had said after the new findings that he had no doubts about entering the talks -"None at all. It is to our advantage both militarily and politically." The Killian scientists, though admitting their mistakes, passed the word that they could soon work out improvements in underground test-detection, were worried that publishing the new findings might look like bad faith with the Kremlin...
...Softest Touch." The TV headlines are a major example of one news medium complementing another. Panel-show producers shop long and hard to find a guest whose appearance will climax the week's headlines and thus stimulate new ones. For the guest stars there is a chance to reach TV mass audiences that no newspaper's circulation can match. For this opportunity, guests are willing to hold back choice news items -a practice that often arouses editors' ire but also stirs their interest, since Sunday is a dull news day, and Monday's papers are often...
This use of TV to reach the public and make news is spreading to other cities. New York City Controller Lawrence Gerosa last fall used a Sunday interview on WRCA's Searchlight to score the city's school-building program as being "too fast and too fancy," stirred an open row in the papers. As reporters clamored for rebuttal to Gerosa's charges, school board officials bided their time until they in turn could state their case...
...though it might have been cut out of fairly stiff cardboard." His wife is socially embarrassed, for "she thought it more important to be esteemed by her concierge than by her Creator." A dutiful husband, Duperrier cultivates the seven deadly sins in the hope of losing the halo. Matters reach a hilariously poignant pitch when Duperrier blushingly prepares for lust by reading the latest sex manuals aloud. At story's end, he is a prostitute's pimp, but the nimbus of light still rings his head. The highly orthodox moral: the unmerited gift of divine grace...