Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perfect Match. In Christchurch, New Zealand, Rugby Fan Ted Henderson ran an ad in the Star: "Urgent-refined gentleman wants to meet widow with two tickets, third test, Christchurch, August 29, view to matrimony. Kindly send photographs of tickets...
...Warded off a third housing-bill veto by accepting White House direction on where to make further cuts (the $50 million college-classroom program, a spread-out in the spending of $650 million urban renewal funds), but retained some of the Ike-disliked features (a $50 million program to build homes for the elderly, extra public-housing starts) in a $1 billion bill that is still high ($200 million above budget) but less than half its original Democratic size...
Totally without industry, Laos has only two legal exports of any importance: 1) benzoin and 2) stick-lac, an insect product that is used as an ingredient in lacquer and varnish. But the country's main crop is opium (one-third of world production") grown on the mountaintops by Meo tribesmen who also profess to be werewolves. Laos' biggest import is U.S. dollars-for the past five years U.S. aid has run from $43 million to $54 million a year...
...Iceland's representatives cut short the weekly meeting of the Icelandic-American Defense Council, and an Icelandic protest was handed to the State Department in Washington. With Iceland's elections scheduled for next month, the only gainer seems likely to be the U.S.-hating Communist Party, already third strongest in the land with i some 15% of the vote...
Died. Kay Kendall, 33, bright, beautiful, promising screen comedienne (Genevieve, Les Girls), third wife (since 1957) of Actor Rex (My Fair Lady) Harrison; after a long battle, kept secret from their friends, against leukemia; in London...