Word: recording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rodger Ward, who out lasted the favorite, skimmed by three major crashes and set a new record in the U.S.'s most exacting test of men and racing cars. See SPORT...
...sustain the presidential veto of a budget-busting. Democratic-sponsored rural electrification bill, he took fresh aim at each of his Republican colleagues. To one he snapped: "Don't you forget that in 1960 you're going to have to run on Eisen hower's record." To another he appealed: "This is a straight political issue. Are you going to let the Democrats get away with it?'' With a farm-state critic of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, he agreed: "All right, he is an s.o.b. - but he's our s.o.b." When the vote...
West. Britain now has a favorite balance of payments with the U.S. for the first time since 1865 (April exports to the U.S. totaled a record $100.8 million). London accordingly relaxed quota restrictions on dollar imports from the U.S. and Canada, leaving 90% of Britain's imports from the U.S. free of controls. The change has been expectable since last December, when Britain made the pound more freely convertible into dollars...
...late Dr. Lloyd Shaw formed a dance school in Colorado Springs, organized the famed Cheyenne Mountain Dancers. Since then, square dancing has grown every year as popular entertainment, with about 10,000 callers now active (the best of them make as much as $150 a night) and two dozen record companies providing recorded calls. There are an estimated 1,000,000 serious square-dance buffs in the U.S., as dedicated to learning the intricacies of the ladies' chain or the left-hand star as any Arthur Murray graduate student is to the mastery...
Little Horatio has figured it out. When the teacher registers him for the first day of school, he waits until she is not looking, steals the card, and scrams. "If you catch them at the neat minute," he explains, "there is no record in the whole world!" For about 20 years, no one gets Horatio's number (his full name, by no coincidence, is Horatio Alger), and he prowls Manhattan a free man, without diploma, social security, draft or credit card, without compensation for employment or unemployment, without driver's license or vaccination certificate. The authorities finally nail...