Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...pair of tart messages, President Eisenhower prodded Congress to pass intact his $4.2 billion foreign-aid request (a House-Senate conference committee authorized a $4.1 billion ceiling; still ahead was the appropriation wrangle), to heed a string of top-priority problems ranging from the Treasury interest ceiling to the appalling farm mess. "We still have a great deal to get done for America," said he. But Democratic congressional leaders, forewarned fortnight ago of Ike's determination to veto big-spending bills, went right ahead setting up fat targets...
...ever get so big you won't sell pictures." He has sold other things, too, at Presley performances. Bucking custom, he makes newsmen pay for their own tickets, seldom passes out freebees even to close business associates, has been known to peddle war-surplus binoculars (at $2 a pair) to buddies who ended up in poor locations...
Better Luck Next Time. In Hong Kong, while walking down a hall to his apartment, Law Kun-suk tore a pair of panties from an overhead line because it is supposed to be bad luck to walk under them, was clouted over the head by the irate owner, next day received a six-week jail sentence for property destruction...
Into print last weekend burst a pair of nonprofessional writers: Army 2nd Lieut. Peter Dawlcins, West Point's All-America halfback in 1958, now a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, and German-born Scientist Wernher von Braun, one of the top U.S. missile scientists. In The New York Times Magazine, Dawkins compared U.S. and British attitudes toward collegiate sports ("We Play to Win, They Play for Fun"). In This Week Magazine, Rocketeer von Braun presented Part One of a serialized novel titled Life on Mars. But professional writers needed to read only the leads and relax. Dawkins starts...
Since World War II the biggest names in golf have belonged to a pair of truly rugged individuals: hard-bitten little Ben Hogan, a Texan who laboriously constructed his game to a point of mechanical perfection, and Sam Snead, a shrewd hillbilly playing out of West Virginia, with a natural swing that was the sweetest anywhere. Both 47, Hogan and Snead still play the big tournaments, but their reigning days have clearly ended...