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Could all this be of value to experts? Most agreed it could. Tournament players usually strive for contracts in the highpoint major suits-hearts and spades-or in no-trump. But hearts is the lowest-ranking of the three, the "danger suit." An opponent can shut out a heart bidder with a spade call at small risk. This, in turn, makes it much more costly for the heart bidder to reach his contract. If he knows his partners heart length, he reduces his risks...
Among the trump cards in the U.S. Government's hand is a devastating report of five OAS ambassadors that backs up U.S. contention that Communists played a substantial part in the revolution. Yet when the report was first issued on May 8, not a single U.S. paper picked it up. Next day Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. Ambassador to the OAS, held an hour-long press briefing on the report, but even that was given scant play in the press...
...Taft (or Goldwater) can't win" was the expedientials' trump. But they failed to notice that 1964 was being played in no trump, because for the first time in twenty years no one really expected any Republican candidate to beat President Johnson. When it became clear that Rockefeller's popularity was on the way down, most of his backing quickly vanished...
...then from high in the Whispering Gallery a Royal Horse Guards trumpeter sounded the Last Post, its plaintive notes ascending and echoing round the dome itself. In answer, from across the cathedral, came the bugle call of Reveille played by a Royal Irish Hussar, a hearty and heartening last trump that would have stirred the old warrior's blood...
...graded classes, "new" this or that -have in the main worked toward a successful transformation of U.S. secondary education. Although the U.S. educational system is too varied, too unwieldy, too much subject to local control for the tide to be national, the direction is clear. Says J. Lloyd Trump, who pioneered the team-teaching method: "We're on the fringe of a golden era in education. It's going to come slowly, but we're heading there...