Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close-packed delegates-milkmaids, marshals, lady welders, robed Asian tribesmen-volleyed cheers. This was a Congress of Victors, and on this day when the Communist heads of a third of mankind were met to hear him tell it, there was no doubt who the winner was. Here was Nikita Khrushchev, 64, racing through the statistics of his triumphs-Lunik, Sputniks, "mass-produced" ICBMs, new targets for industry, farming and education. Gone was the last Congress' talk of collective leadership; gone were those saber-toothed old commissars (Molotov, Kaganovich, Malenkov et al.), who had been bloodlessly banished and disgraced...
...years of democracy," rumbled Orson Welles in the film The Third Man, "the only thing the Swiss have invented is the cuckoo clock." This gibe was not even correct: a German in the Black Forest invented the cuckoo clock. But it barely ruffled the Swiss, who often appear to think that they, not the Greeks, invented democracy, and that only they understand its proper practice. The cardinal rule of Switzerland's unwritten democratic law is that only men shall vote. In the rest of Europe, only tiny Liechtenstein and Monaco also deny the ballot to women...
...matter of course, he made the Porcellian Club. Summers he traveled abroad, became expert at living like a first-class passenger on a third-class ticket. On one voyage, he ingratiated himself with Boxing Manager Joe ("I should have stood in bed") Jacobs before the ship left the dock, spent most of the trip playing poker on A-deck with Jacobs, Max Schmeling and Morton Downey. In his sophomore year Alec decided summer trips were too short, set out to get his degree in three years, didn't quite make it (he lacked one-half unit), but managed...
...political reasons, the unbeaten U.S.S.R. team refused to play Nationalist China at the world basketball championships in Santiago. Chile, thereby forfeited its claim to the title. Brazil was declared champion, with a second-rate U.S. Air Force team runner-up. ¶ For the third straight year, World Champions David Jenkins, 22, and Carol Heiss. 19, skated rings around the opposition, scored victories in the national senior figure skating championships at Rochester...
...Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois, the New York Herald Tribune's Frank Kelly. Most were not, like the Vancouver Sun's Fashion Editor Marie Moreau, abruptly shifted from a haute couture visit in New York, to a Havana jig ("My third dancing partner casually unstrapped his .38 and placed it under his hat on the chair...