Word: finishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alternatives under which "nothing will be excluded-not even independence." Almost certainly, the general would call for "pacification" as a first step in his plan, if only to keep the touchy and victory-hungry French army behind him. But pacification could fall far short of a fight to the finish; De Gaulle might well decree within the next few months that rebel resistance in Algeria was no longer widespread enough to warrant the title of "civil war," and that pacification had been achieved...
...American Games. But how much exercise is best? What kind? At what time of life? To these key questions there were no sharp answers, because medical science knows surprisingly little about the specific effects of different types of exercise on the human heart. As the experts puffed toward the finish line, they reached a consensus on some preliminary findings. ¶Athlete's heart" is an unfortunate term that should be discarded, because it indicates a diseased state that does not exist, said New York University's Dr. Louis F. Bishop. Also: changes in athletes' pulse rates...
...outdo private-school graduates in top colleges. But only a fraction of public schools turn out students of such high caliber. Some of the brightest graduates (nearly half the top 30%, or 200,000 yearly) do not go to college at all. Too many bright students do not even finish high school. And despite compulsory education, millions of Americans never glance at a book from year to year (only 25% say they do). Some 8,500,000 can barely read...
Last year the Dodgers finished seventh, 21 full games from the top. But this year the Dodger veterans and kids have meshed to produce a balanced ball club. The Dodger pitching staff, founded on the cross-fired fast balls of young Don Drysdale, has become one of the best in the league. But the Dodgers will rise or fall in the stretch on the play of three old pros, who are hustling like sandlotters. On third, Junior Gilliam, 30, is having the best season of his seven-year major-league career (.312), has been on base in more than...
Automakers, too, are anxious to keep up the July pace and are expected to complete the changeover to 1960 model production in three to four weeks, one of the shortest periods on record. With the finish of 1959 car production scheduled for the end of this month. 1960 models will roll out in volume by mid-September, a full month ahead...