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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1965
Page
12
Almanac notes for Friday October 29, 1965 include events from 1918 Kiel mutiny to 1940 draft, Turkey's republic birth in 1923, and 1929 Wall Street collapse. A quote from Mark Twain on cats and lies closes the brief.
In Moscow the Tass news agency reported eight bricks of gold weighing 281 pounds were found under the wooden floor of an old building that had housed a jewelry shop before the 1917 revolution when the city was Leningrad named St Petersburg.
auditors from the General Accounting Office say the government can save 250000 dollars a year by buying desks without standard two locks. Only 10 percent of the 170000 desks purchased annually for 11 million dollars actually need locks for security, officials report.
In a bridge duel, West opens singleton trump and East leads a sequence that caps South to four trumps plus a club ruff, costing 1500 points as South goes down eight. East’s aggressive play and Blackwood cues set up a gambling grand slam, while North questions the grand slam risk and West's underbid.
The excerpt presents a bridge bidding problem. North dealer opens two spades, South with OQ32 YAIES4 O32 a654 passes. The answer shows you pass with seven points and spade support. A follow up asks about opening two spades with AQQ12 and five spades and what to do next.
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