Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...varsity lost the ball after a penalty, backfield mixup, and tumble, but managed to hold the visitors through three downs. Then an unwarranted interference violation by a Crimson back put the ball on the one and set up touchdown number four...
Zagat will propose to the Council at its meeting tonight that it set up a committee to study possible sites for parking, including a garage run by he University...
Slapped & Hapless. No one, least of all cocky Khrushchev, could probably have foreseen the degree of frustration that lay ahead for him when he set sail for Manhattan aboard Baltika. Even as he and his cronies were on the high seas, the expelled Communist "technicians" and diplomats in the Congo were packing their bags and heading home in defeat in one of the indelible and humiliating scenes of the cold war (TIME, Sept. 26). Even as his contingent arrived on Manhattan Island, the U.N., in one overwhelming 70-0 vote, slapped down the Russian-led attempt to discredit Dag Hammarskjold...
Boos at the Plaza. Then everybody got set for Nikita Khrushchev's rebuttal next day. By now it was clear that no mere recital of the oft-told Soviet line would be enough to recapture all the lost ground. Khrushchev's own description of Ike's speech as "conciliatory" suggested that Khrushchev was eager to begin negotiating again. That night, instead of closeting himself with his advisers, Khrushchev resumed his favorite role of informal comic and propagandist. Flanked by his ever-present army of security guards, he rolled up to the staid Plaza Hotel to attend...
...course," says George Abbott, "is to please." Abbott, who has co-authored and produced fifteen musicals and directed ten others, has a reputation in the theater as a ruthless perfectionist whose formula of pace plus "p-zazz" results in a hit nearly every time. This week he has set up out-of-town headquarters at the Ritz Hotel and the Shubert Theater during the pre-Broadway trial of Tenderloin, the tale of "the trial of a boy's soul" during New York...