Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another bright spot for the American hockey team was the selection of its goalie, Willard Ikola, as the outstanding goal-tender in the Cortina competition...
...hotels). He lived in the U.S. for a dozen years, first married Alice Wolcott, daughter of the chairman of the board of Pennsylvania's Lukens Steel Co.; they had four children. Then he quit a Pennsylvania advertising job and bought Bermuda's Swizzle Inn, a rum-punch spot, later added a nightclub called Angel's Grotto. The genteel ginmill business put him in contact with Manhattan cafe society and entertainment types, and he began spending less time with staid Bermudians, more with exciting Americans. By last December his wife had divorced him; he had been named corespondent...
...years ago, and many highly placed observers think that just such a skilled and universally trusted international hand is needed there now. Climbing first out of his white U.N. plane at Cairo, Hammarskjold sewed up Egyptian consent to his plan for healing Egypt's worst Israeli border sore spot, the demilitarized desert crossroads at El Auja, where blood flowed freely last November. Each side agreed to pull back its forces and let the U.N. go ahead and fix the demarcation lines...
Last week CBS put its stamp of quality on Camera Three by making it a network show. But the budget, more than doubled to $4,000, is still low, and the time spot (Sun. 11:30 a.m.) is as bad as ever. Nonetheless, Producer Herridge gave a good account of himself. His opening program was a dramatic enactment of Dostoevsky's short story, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. Well acted by Canadian John Drainie, it had what TV shows rarely have-an imaginative combination of literate vigor and moral point, plus a quality of probing wonder against which...
Agriculture. The committee forecast a worldwide revolution that will boost farm productivity and lower costs. Radiation has been used to breed high-yield barleys, leaf-spot-resistant peanuts; radioisotope tracers have shown the way to more effective use of fertilizers...