Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...have to give way to the dingoes, the wombats, and especially to the endless flocks of sheep that drift across the screen like clouds with hooves. Sheep are also involved in the film's best sequence, a glorious piece of frontier humor in which Mitchum enters a shearing contest and takes a terrible licking from an 80-year-old man (Wylie Watson). Stone the crows if, on the whole, the show ain't square dinkum and everybody's cuppa...
...Electric Corp., charged by the Government with conspiring to rig bids and fix prices in the sale of $7 billion in electrical equipment (TIME, Dec. 5). In the largest criminal case in the history of the antitrust laws, most of the companies were allowed to plead nolo contendere (no contest) in certain cases, provided they pleaded guilty in seven major cases. On each indictment the companies are liable to a $50,000 fine; some 46 individuals involved face possible jail sentences...
...Columbia professor proposed a way of avoiding nuclear war in a speech last night: America should step up its political and economic contest with Russia, he said, and at the same time try to stop the military contest by negotiating inspected disarmament agreements...
...this first Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League contest for both squads, excitement, if any, will come in the sprints and in the 440 freestyle. Against Lehigh last week, Cadet John Sollohub smashed an all-time Point record...
After the first eight minutes of the game last night at Roberts Center, the 500 spectators in attendance maintained only a statistical interest in the proceedings. The Boston College basketball team was gunning for its third straight 100-point game, and for most of the contest the thought uppermost in nearly everybody's mind was: Would they make...