Word: ters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three Black Sedans. The pawn of these delicate negotiations leads a spare and lonely life inside the drafty old building at Szabadsag Ter 12 in Budapest. Legation officials admit few visitors, and the guest list for the Mass that he celebrates on Sundays is forwarded to Washington for clearance. By all accounts, the cardinal remains chipper, although one U.S. visitor who heard him preach recently says that his mind tends to wander. At night, only he and an American duty officer occupy the legation. Outside, three black sedans of the Hungarian secret police are on around-the-clock alert...
...space of a few evening hours that the fans hardly know where to look first. This winter it is "Look quick-there goes another world's record." Three weeks ago, at the Millrose Games in New York, the Soviet Union's rubber-legged broad jumper, Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, casually smashed Ralph Boston's old record with a prodigious leap of 26 ft. 10 in. The pole-vault record has been boosted five times by four different vaulters, the last a muscular Finn named Pentti Nikula, who soared an incredible 16 ft. 8¾ in. How much faster...
...Thurs., Sept. 13 Our Next Man in Space (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). A filmed profile of Astronaut Wal ter Schirra Jr., who is scheduled to make the next space flight, a six-orbit...
...Family? Nehru's own personal favorites in the succession sweepstakes are said to be his daughter, Indira Gandhi, 44, widow of Congress Party Backbencher Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), and acerbic, West-baiting Defense Minis ter Krishna Menon, 65. Nehru envisions his daughter, who is his closest confidante, as a stopgap Prime Minister who could keep India on an even keel until the Congress Party chose a permanent successor...
...will shine is in the high jump, the distance races (5,000 and 10,000 meters), the javelin, and in such curiosities in the U.S. as the hop-step-and-jump, the walking race and the steeplechase. They also boast strong men in the broad jump and discus: Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, who recently broke Ralph Boston's broad jump record with a prodi gious leap of 27 ft. 3 in., and Vladimir Trusenev, who last month set a new discus record of 202 ft. 2½ in. But the U.S.'s Boston will be tough to beat...