Word: matching
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Match Play. In London, after Edward George Carter, 39, testified that his wife had slapped him in the presence of his stepmother, left him in the middle of a dance floor, smacked him on the head with a potted plant, and hidden the family supply of tea, the judge dismissed the divorce suit on the grounds that such incidents amount to "a case of ordinary wear and tear of married life...
Balks-A container, such as a match balks...
...what happens when the plan ends next year? To match Rockefeller's annual $100,000 means another 26% tax boost, and last week Morrilton was trying to decide whether to hold its gains. In the Rockefeller era, the 2,000-student district has closed rural schools, upgraded graduation requirements, acquired the latest science equipment. It has hired new teachers and the only school psychologist in Arkansas. It has given Negro students (15%) precisely equal, if separate schools, and academic achievements have been doubled...
...mother of Hollywood Starlet Jill (The Lost World) St. John. Last week, in fact, Jiil was standing in a flossy suite in San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel when Five & Dime Heir Lance Reventlow, 24, came along and took her hand in marriage. It looked like a happy match all round. Lance's mother, Sextuple Bride Barbara Mutton, 47, apparently had no objections to Jill, 19, daughter of a well-to-do Beverly Hills electronics wiring maker of German-Jewish lineage; neither did Babs seem upset by her new daughter-in-law's virtually bare-breasted exposure...
Dreaming with the Eyes. Riesel, who is built like a banty rooster (5 ft. 4 in., 150 Ibs., with a 42-in. chest) and has a disposition to match, does not consider his blindness a handicap. He lay in bed for six weeks after the night in 1956 when a thug, hired by labor racketeers whom Riesel had been writing about, threw six ounces of acid in his eyes. All the while, he vowed to get back to his office and on the job. "They knocked me out for six weeks," he says of his enemies. "And that...