Word: becker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trailing midway through the final round at Seattle, the bridge team headed by B. Jay Becker rallied strongly to overtake Charles Goren's team and win the Vanderbilt Cup, one of the most prized trophies in U.S. contract bridge, earned the right to represent the U.S. in the 1960 World Bridge Olympiad in Rome...
...answer is as plain as the chip on Der Spiegel's shoulder. Like last week's guest, Der Spiegel rejoices in the immoderate attack, has soared to success partly on the objective of calculated, fight-picking, journalistic cussedness. "Our formula," said Chief Editor Hans Detlev Becker, explaining Der Spiegel's Q-and-A interview policy, "is deliberately aggressive. We want to provoke a clash of opinions." Der Spiegel got what it wanted: angry letters from 200 readers...
...Eternity was every day; Hell began at five in the morning." So Jesuit Thomas Phillips describes his life in a Chinese Communist jail. In a new book, I Met a Traveler (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $3.50), Fellow Jesuit Kurt Becker describes how Father Phillips, former rector of Shanghai's Church of Christ the King, spent three years (1953-56) in Shanghai cells, for the most part squatting in one position all day, forbidden to speak a word. By refusing to defend himself against any charge ("I know that I am here only because I am a Catholic priest...
Those participating in the movement have expressed the hope that other students in the University will join in their protest. Tilden and William O. Becker 1 Div. are distributing the armbands in 33 Divinity Hall and in 1 William James Hall...
...Edwards, Becker, and at least two other Harvard students participated during Spring vacation in the "Walk for Peace" movement. A number of other students also traveled on foot from New Haven to the United Nations Building in New York to express their opposition to bomb testing...