Word: relays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind him Dulles left his wife and secretary (both too exhausted after Manila to face another trip) and two disappointed hostesses (the wives of the Dutch and Norwegian ambassadors) who had been expecting him to dinner. With him he took a new relay of advisers-all European specialists-a change of linen (with nylon accessories, to beat the laundry problem) and two constant companions: a pair of swimming trunks and his dinner jacket. As the big Air Force DC-6 carried the traveling Secretary into the North Atlantic night, U.S. TV audiences saw his image and heard his voice...
...Catalonian independence movement in the 1930s, a few years later merged it with the Communists and took command. He was Catalonia's Minister of Agriculture and Economy and its strongman when the civil war broke out. Through the war, he commuted regularly between Barcelona and Moscow to relay party orders. He policed the Catalonian party with his own Cheka, men in black leather jackets, crisscrossed by cartridge bandoleers. Their knock on a door in Catalonia usually meant torture and death to the man who answered...
...French system; and at Lopik, The Netherlands, and Baden, Germany, where the picture goes to 625 lines. An even tougher problem has been mastering the variety of electrical voltages used by the various nations. Altogether, the system links Europe with 44 transmitters and 4,000 miles of cables and relay stations-some perched on such inaccessible peaks as the nearly 11,000-foot Jungfraujoch in the Alps...
...Angeles, Shotputter Parry O'Brien, who cracked the 60-ft. barrier fortnight ago, broke his own record (by ½ in.) with another record heave of 60 ft. 5 3/4 in. He is now aiming at 62 ft. Another world record was set at the Coliseum relays when the Fordham University quartet of Terry Foley, Frank Tarsney, Bill Persichetty and Tom Courtney ran the two-mile relay in 7:27.3. Old (1952) record...
...Rittenburg, switching his distances Saturday, finished second in the 440 to Little, and ran third log in the mile relay. He also took third in the broad jump. Rittenburg usually runs the hurdles...