Word: matching
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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FRANK J. PRINCE, MAIN UNIVERSAL MATCH OWNER, is EX-CONVICT, trumpeted a St. Louis Post-Dispatch headline over a long story carrying the byline of tough, tireless Reporter Ted Link. The story told how Frank Prince, 71, principal stockholder in St. Louis' Universal Match Corp. and a complex of subsidiary firms, had, between 1908 and 1925, served three prison terms, totaling nearly ten years, for forgery, grand larceny, and issuing fraudulent checks. Two days later the PD, in its ice-cold charity, followed up with another Prince piece, repeating the same facts and adding a few of even less...
...trying to say is that you cannot find a man guilty on this kind of evidence." Swiss newspapers fumed at French journalists who suggested that Jaccoud was being railroaded because he had blemished the reputation of conservative, Calvinist Geneva. Students angrily burned copies of Paris-Match on a city square...
...Cover) The green phone - phone-green to match the office walls - rang imperiously. New York City, said the long-distance operator, was calling Mr. James Reston, and in a moment Mr. Reston, Washington correspond ent of the New York Times, was talking to Adlai Stevenson. The titular head of the Democratic Party, a longtime Reston admirer, confidant and news source, was getting ready for his South American tour, and he wanted to know if the Times in tended to cover it. As a matter of fact, Stevenson hinted, it would be dandy if Reston himself went along. Well, no, said...
...Match the word and the meaning: a) exobiology. 9 1. A summer house...
Research. The U.S. decision not to match Soviet power missile for missile calls for energetic probing for technological breakthroughs on the frontiers of military research. The 1961 budget skimps on frontier programs. Needed: more funds for military research, especially on possible uses of space, such as reconnaissance and early-warning satellite systems...