Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time he fired his first .22, hunting in the mountains where he would one day return, an outlaw. From the age of eight he spent most of his time at a Roman Catholic boarding school in Santiago ; his younger brother Raul, a quarrelsome, envious youngster of five, tagged along. "For the next eleven years," a priest recalls, "we Jesuits had Fidel...
...week canceled or reduced their linage, Publisher Valentine, 42, an Annapolis-trained ex-commander, U.S.N., stood fast, ran a story reporting that the paper was being boycotted. Readers and retailers, although upset by the employment news, were realistic enough not to blame it on the Gazette, refused to go along with the realtors. By week's end, it was clear to all that Publisher Valentine had won his point: "Everyone in Antelope Valley is entitled to the news, whether good...
...Minneapolis Lakers' rookie star Elgin Baylor (TIME, Jan. 19) had previously run into the peculiar brand of hospitality the South reserves for Negroes. Last November in Charlotte, N.C., he and the Boston Celtics' Bill Russell, along with five other Negro players, had been barred from a downtown hotel. Baylor vowed then he would not play again in any city where he was segregated from his fellow players. Last week in Charleston, W. Va., Baylor made good on his promise...
...with the Whitneys' Greentree Stable as a stableboy, watered horses and broke yearlings while he learned about racing. On May 18, 1938, at Beulah Park in Ohio, he rode his first winner, Musical Jack. Said Ted afterward: "Musical Jack did all his own winning. I was just along for the ride. I had him in every pocket but my own, and he still came on to win. That horse looked at me with disgust when I got down after the race...
Many a U.S. corporation has met with equal disaster. A Midwestern auto supplier planned a highly automated plant to make auto frames. But he did not allow sufficient lead time to get out all the bugs. The automated equipment was out of line, would not pass the parts along, and the company had to return to manual equipment to meet production schedules. A Los Angeles wholesale drug company automated the ordering and billing for its warehouse. But hardly had the warehouse started to operate when it had to shut down for nearly two months to straighten out its affairs after...