Six Spades Hand Reveals Precise Winding of the Play
A bridge column recounts a hand where South navigates ruffs and finesses to reach six spades, including a club finesse that guarantees the overtrick later if needed and a safe slam if the finesse loses, with strategic timing and potential diamond finesse noted. Also covered are questions on bidding time in bridge, Sakharov joining Amnesty International supporters in Moscow, and a note about Arthur Conan Doyle’s birth on this date in 1859.
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Easley Blackwood
South
Easley
West
East
Moscow
Andrei Sakharov
Amnesty International
Soviet Union
Sakharov
Valentin Turchin
Yuri Orlov
Chittenden
Plain T-Shirts Turn From Fad to American Institution News
The article traces T shirt culture from novelty to a major medium for self expression. It notes widespread production with messages from playful to blunt. Sherry Chittenden of Lindale Plaza reports brisk sales 400 to 500 shirts weekly with a balanced gender mix.
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University Athletic Department
San Quentin Penitentiary
America
Rolling Pins
Sherry Chittenden
Lindale Plaza
Pedal Powered Planes Fuel Human Flight Fever
The piece notes a surge of interest in human powered flight across the Atlantic led by American enthusiasts like Joseph A. Zinno who in April flew his 150 pound pedal powered plane over 80 feet. It compares Zinno with Squadron Leader John Potter of the Royal Air Force who set a record with 1,171 yards in 1 minute 47 seconds and mentions a 50 000 pound prize for a mile long figure eight course. It cites energy estimates and notes the hydrogen bomb announcement from 20 years ago.
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Atlantic
Joseph A. Zinno
Zinno
Air Force
John Potter
Royal Air Force
Potter
Petition memo backfires in Willimantic crime push
Willimantic police chief John Hussey received a petition from 25 Bolivia Street residents asking for speed enforcement on a troubled street. A radar unit was deployed and five or six petition signers were warned for speeding.
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John Hussey
Bolivia Street
S Rs
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Ask
Jeordys
Florida
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Bob Bergstrom
Iowa City
Twenty-ninth Street
Kathy Kopernik
Marion
Nancy Lichterman
Fifteenth Street
Mark Chittenden
Thirtieth Street
By Oswald
James Jacoby
North
Steve Hell
Fonz
3Rd Ave. S.W
Glen C. Livezey
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Second Ave. S.E. Cedar Rapids
Christian Science Board of
National Geographic Society
United States
Empire Photo
Empire
Kodak
Peg
Men's & Boys
29Th Street
Willimantic, Conn
The
Cedar Rapids Board of Realtors
Cedar Rapids Board of Education
Board of Realtors
Cedar Rapids
26Th Street
O Avenue
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