Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Prince Sihanouk offered Cambodians the choice of four ballots. The first bore the prince's picture; the second a picture of a rival leader now living in exile in Thailand; the third was printed in red to signify approval of Communism; the fourth, marked with a question mark to indicate no opinion. In order to show that the vote would be free, Cambodia invited journalists from Southeast Asia and everywhere else. Of Cambodia's often quarrelsome neighbors, the South Vietnamese (who have just claimed some Cambodian islands) refused politely, the Thailanders not so politely, and the Laotians declined...
...baiting has no ceiling or cellar. The daily Combate is currently charging that the Chilean earthquakes were caused by U.S. underground nuclear explosions. Radio Mambi crows over the U-2 episode: "Any day now, His Majesty Caesar Au gustus Eisenhower I may lose his trousers." In a third-grade Havana classroom last week, when the teacher asked what happened on Feb. 15, 1898. a tiny girl shot back the answer: "The United States blew up the Maine so they could intervene in Cuba." The rest of the "correct" answer: "And most of the crew members were Negroes...
...year pension plan, with producers contributing 1% of the actors' payroll in the first year, 3% by the third. Equity had asked...
...Reviled by home-town sportswriters and nerve weary with defeat, Manager Billy Jurges first was ordered by doctors to take an extended rest, then was fired by the last-place Boston Red Sox. Jurges' successor: Pinky Higgins, the old Detroit Tiger third baseman, who managed the Red Sox from 1955 until last July, when he was yanked off the job with the club wallowing in last place and made a special assistant to Owner Tom Yawkey...
...time winner of the event, Ellis Knowles, 73, turned the rare golfing trick of shooting a lower score than his age when he came home witn a round of 72, had another of 73 to finish a creditable third in the overall standings of the U.S. Senior Golf Association championship in his home town of Rye, N.Y. The winner: California's 57-year-old John Dawson, who took his third straight title with a two-round total...