Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phil Erard, Captain Les Scheror, and Bill Pierskalla formed the epee team. Erard was the only man of the evening to sweep all three of his bouts, and Scherer chalked...
French Defense Minister René Pleven flew to Indo-China this week to see for himself how the war was going. He came upon a strange battleground. The French held the towns but could not sweep the jungles; the Communists held the jungles but could not storm the towns. Since neither the French nor the Communists seemed able to win the military decision with their present strength, both sides kept their armies busy looking for, or fending off, headline victories that might somehow influence the political decision in Paris, Washington or Berlin...
SURPLUS military goods valued at $10 billion will soon go on the block in Operation Clean Sweep. Some $8 billion of this is considered strictly military equipment that the armed forces will either junk or dispose of to foreign countries, but $2 billion worth is civilian-type merchandise. The General Services Administration wants to offer the material to other government agencies first, then to the public. But the Defense Department, needing space for new equipment, wants to clean out its warehouses in public sales...
None of this bothers Harry Grant, who talks about the Journal with the purple sweep of a Fourth of July orator and the fervor of an evangelist. Says he: "The Journal must be our Fair Lady. We must have freedom, freedom, freedom-not to be willful, or bigoted, or swell-headed, or to give us delusions of grandeur-but so that the Journal can act entirely as it thinks best for the community. The Journal is above our frailties. The Journal's job is to serve the public. It can't be anything else...
...Cadillac has used its 1953 Le Mans experimental car as the model for the 1954 line. The Cadillac has a new sweep, with a wrap-around windshield, larger tail fins, and jutting, jetlike exhaust pipes. There is a new suspension system, a more powerful engine (up to 230 h.p. from 210), cowl-type air vents instead of standard air intakes (which often sucked in the exhaust from cars ahead). As on most G.M. cars, prices are little changed, except for Cadillac's Eldorado convertible, cut $2,000, to $5,700 f.o.b. Detroit...