Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tables, West doubled the five-spade bid - naturally enough, since West held 15 of the deck's 40 high-card points (according to the Goren system of counting four for an ace, three for a king, two for a queen, one for a jack). But Goren, on the safe-side assumption that either North or South was void in clubs ("I had a strong suspicion my ace of clubs would not live."), refrained from doubling. Upshot: South made five spades, finessing West's king of hearts and discarding a heart on North's ten of diamonds...
...Lebanese troops, tanks and barbed wire surrounded Beirut's Parliament; soldiers frisked all comers except Deputies and diplomats, even examined newsmen's pencils to make sure they were not bombs. Men for whom the government had long since put out arrest warrants showed up under special safe-conduct, and there were some curious confrontations. The eagle-beaked boss of Baalbek's rebels strode up to Foreign Minister Charles Malik, target of the most savage opposition attacks, and with a big smile, shook hands. In trooped other rebels, all wanted by the cops, to be greeted with handshakes...
...best possible vaccine against paralytic polio would be one containing live virus -it is cheaper to give, easier to take (by mouth) and should be more potent. But U.S. health authorities are fearful that some virus might prove to be not only live but virulent. They play it safe with the Salk vaccine, in which the virus is killed with formaldehyde. Now, from darkest Africa, comes the report of a trial in which a quarter-million people have been given a live-virus vaccine made in the U.S. It appears to have been completely safe, almost 100% effective...
...Parent-sponsored shows will not be held during school hours. Among well-meant time eaters at one high school last year: lectures on safe skiing...
...Dunkirk, N.Y., police said they caught Samuel Miller hiding in a parked panel truck, taking telescopic movies of a supermarket manager working the store's combination safe...