Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Czar Ernesto ("Che") Guevara would go to Russia in November and there ask for increased aid, possibly even consigning Cuba's entire sugar crop to the Soviets. Unless Russia was prepared to play Santa Claus, the deal could only worsen Cuba's economic plight. Just diverting one-third of this year's harvest to Iron Curtain countries at their prices (3¼? per lb. v. 4? production cost) was enough to slash sugar workers' wages from $1.31 daily...
...Guillotine. The third game brought the teams to New York, where Yankee fans calmly accepted the Series as an annual rite of autumn, as expectable as Thanksgiving. Beginning where they had left off, the Yankees in the first inning had already scored two runs and loaded the bases when the unlikeliest slugger of them all stepped into the box, looking fully as dangerous as any promising Little Leaguer. Second Baseman Bobby Richardson got every bit of his 5-ft. 9-in., 166-lb. frame behind his swing and hit a grand-slam home run into the leftfield seats. For Richardson...
...week, when Big Ten teams turned on one another, was it clearly apparent from the skill and violence of play that the Midwest was back in form. Undefeated Ohio State, ranked fifth in the nation, routed fourth-ranked Illinois, 34-7. Trailing 15-14 with five minutes to go, third-ranked Iowa rallied to defeat Michigan State. 27-15. Meanwhile, Michigan boosted conference prestige higher yet by trouncing undefeated Duke...
Born. To Hollywood Producer-Director Otto Preminger, 53, recently back from shooting a film version of Leon Uris' best-selling novel Exodus in Israel and Cyprus; and his third wife Patricia, 29, his onetime movie costume coordinator, whom he married last March: twins; in Manhattan. Names: Victoria and Mark...
...overpoweringly impressive." Hindemith's own work, musical settings to four long passages from the books of Matthew and Luke in Latin, evoked several strikingly different moods: the first and fourth motets were highly dramatic and rhythmically complicated; the second had the lyric simplicity of folk song, while the third was reminiscent of an Arab mourning song. They displayed, concluded Die Welt, an entirely "new creative impulse...