Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston center was one more move in President Carroll M. Shanks's campaign to decentralize the company's insurance and investment business, put it in closer touch with its customers around the U.S. Since 1948, President Shanks has spent millions to move large chunks of the Pru's business from its Newark headquarters to regional offices in Los Angeles, Houston, Minneapolis, Jacksonville, Toronto and Chicago. Said Shanks: "Our projects apparently stimulated other people to invest and press forward for a developing local economy. The same will be true in Boston. We expect more and more investments...
...Physicist Heinz Haber, the show's narrator, tossed a single pingpong ball into the arena of massed traps-so that each sprung trap would fire two balls to spring two more traps-the screen erupted into a chaos of snaps, pings and pongs. The mousetraps were the brightest touch in a lucid, hour-long primer, mostly in cartoons, tracing the story of atomic energy from Democritus to Rickover. The title ominously suggested that the show might smack more of Pluto than plutonium, but apart from small blemishes, e.g., giving a Russian accent to the villainous genie in the illustrative...
...only TV personality on earth who has been denounced in the House of Commons ("an insult to the Queen"), attacked in Izvestia ("a symbol of the American way of life") and defended by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ("We've recommended that nobody touch him when he's on camera"). Not only did his presence once prompt ex-King Farouk to stalk out of the Rome zoo, but his TV appearances between films of Queen Elizabeth's coronation on U.S. channels set British jaws against the advent of commercial TV, helped delay...
...KNOWS exactly when the first space ship will touch down on the surface of the moon- but what was only a fantastic dream a few decades ago is now recognized by scientists as being almost "just around the corner...
However, at number one singles, Ben Heckscher will have a very tough match against Tech's ace player, Juan Hermosilla. Hermosilla came within an inch of upsetting Hecksher last year in Hemenway Gymnasium when the Harvard player was down two games to one before stopping the speedy, touch artist in the fifth game...