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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1973
Page
9
Jim notes H W Kelsey authored More Killing Defense for advanced players with many interesting hands. Oswald previews the first chapter Bread and Butter Discards, urging focus on North and East hands to spot the void 3962.
Jim and Oswald discuss a bridge hand strategy. West leads ace of hearts, South ruffs, and spades are played. Discard choices hinge on avoiding high hearts and diamonds, with the key idea to shed a diamond to reveal declarer's diamond void and prevent the tenth trick via a diamond finesse.
In the given auction West North East South openers bid one no trump then partner rebids two clubs. The question asks whether to bid two no trump or pass based on partner’s openness and dummy play. Also recalling a 10 year old note about East Germany asylum appeal by a U.S. army captain and sergeant.
A Washington desk sergeant recounts a minor staffer’s quips about Watergate as politicians and aides scramble to deny knowledge. The piece skewers the era’s paranoia, noting Watergate’s potential to strike at the American political system while deriding it as vaudeville material.
Washington AP report says the Cost of Living Council suspects many firms boosted prices in anticipation of controls but has not yet secured firm evidence. Nixon’s Phase 3 rules require advance reports on price actions, aiding investigations though widespread rollbacks are not expected soon.
KATMANDU UPI reports a second group of Italian climbers reached Mount Everest summit Monday, two days after four teammates first raised the Italian flag atop the world’s highest peak. The ascent marks the first Italian ascent of Everest in 10 years and the feat coincides with Edmund Hillary’s historic May 1953 climb in New Zealand.
Francis Dahl, age 65, a cartoonist for the Boston Herald Traveler and the Boston Globe, and author of five cartoon books, died Sunday in Boston AP report notes his prominent role in local newspapers and literary works.
Kingston Rhode Island AP Robert Materne a 21 year old student devoured 83 hamburgers without buns in 2 1 2 hours to set a world record at the University of Rhode Island New England Food Management Inc sponsored the event Guinness Book of Records lists previous holder Philip Yazdick with 77 patties in 1955 Materne weighed 199 pounds before the contest and 212 after his weight jumped.
Premier Golda Meir and two top Israeli officials warned Israel must be prepared for a possible Egyptian attack during NBC Meet the Press. Abba Eban said war is not inevitable but not impossible and discussed East Jerusalem, nuclear capability, and reelection plans.
In DESCANSO California authorities refused to file charges against a couple who treated their 3 year old son with a homemade mix of charcoal potatoes and onions after a snake bite. Robin Moriarty died about three hours later at the family tent in Japatul valley. The father said he could not get a doctor and did not believe in medicine.
Armand Beggett of Live Oak landed a 420 pound nine foot four inch sturgeon near Grimes after a two hour fight aboard a fishing trip. The catch was certified by Ward en Walt Frazier of the State Fish and Game Department as a new rod and reel record. Beggett used sardines on a 25 pound test line.
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