Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite such a record, the U.S. earned small thanks in Afro-Asian countries. Why does it find itself portrayed, by such disparate men as Nasser and Nehru, as a covert aider and abettor of imperialism? Diehard Colonel Blimps-British, French and American-retort that such "ingratitude" simply proves the folly of "appeasing" the Afro-Asian world. The real answers are more complicated...
Premier Khalil had one powerful argument: his record. An outstanding administrator, he has kept his budget balanced, poured his surpluses into a series of development projects that have made the Sudan Africa's land of promise. He has resisted all Soviet attempts to infiltrate, sternly rebuffed both the blandishments and the threats that flood in from Egypt...
Ovation. Listeners over 14, said Miller, are rebelling by turning off radios and programing for themselves with phonographs. He snorted at the jockeys' attempt to justify what they play by arguing that they only "give them what they want." Asked he: "Does the demand for a record come because you play it first, or do the kids demand it because they find it in the Top 40? If the Top 40 is an election, will somebody please blow the whistle for the Honest Ballot Association?" Miller's prescription for foresighted station owners: "Guide sub-teen tastes so that...
...only a stride behind," said Ron, and I could feel the energy flowing. I decided this was it." So the 22-year-old Villanova senior ran all out for the one thing that has been missing from his swift career on the track: a world record. He broke the tape in 4:03.4, two-tenths of a second faster than any man had ever run an indoor mile before. ¶ Overflowing with swimming talent as always, Yale Coach Bob Kiphuth took a couple of flipper-footed juniors to the Eastern Intercollegiate championships at Annapolis and saw them collect three titles...
...ballroom of The Bronx's Concourse Plaza Hotel with such swashbuckling skill that they piled up 71 points in foil, épée and saber bouts, and won the three-weapon intercollegiate title. Second: N.Y.U. with 66. ¶ The Fish and Wildlife Service reported an alltime record sale of 19,276,767 fishing licenses and 14,918,416 hunting licenses in fiscal 1957. California, which led the U.S. in fishermen, reported a sobering development: the recession has driven its hunters to poaching deer out of season to put meat on the family table...