Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Padang's rebellion floundered, seemed perilously near collapse. The rebel communiqués continued to report bloody battles all along the shrinking perimeter of rebel territory in Central Sumatra, but newsmen searching for these savage conflicts were finding little but bad roads, torrential rains and, occasionally, friendly government troops. "It's an accident when they fight-like two people bumping into each other in the dark," said one Western observer...
...metals-rich Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari, Linda lost a jade earring. Sympathetically, the 41-year-old Baby suggested a trip to Hong Kong for a replacement, and off they flew. When their shopping was done, they decided to go on around the world to Rio. Linda collected a few baubles along the way-including a $4,000 diamond "engagement ring...
...sinking into her seat after missing one of the sessions, whispered to her neighbor: "What do the Lutherans want now?" Says a Lutheran colleague: "He can see a goal and get to it faster than anyone I've known. That's perhaps one reason why he gets along better with men than with women-the women always want to debate. He is not exactly the warmhearted shepherd. He has a tendency to kick the rumps of the sheep, rather than lead them...
...world. In Fry's United Lutheran Church crosses are sometimes worn as a symbol of supervisory office. * Dutch Lutherans came first to America (New Amsterdam) in 1623. In 1638 Swedish Lutherans established a colony in Delaware. By mid-18th century Lutheranism was firmly established, mostly by Germans, along the eastern seaboard. Patriarch of Lutheranism in the U.S. was the Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, organizer and theologian, who in 1748 formed the first Lutheran Synod in America. In the early 19th century Lutheranism joined the great westward move, swept along by new waves of immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia...
...economy's sturdiest pillars in 1958 got still another buttressing last week. To President Eisenhower went an anti-slump bill designed to pump up to $1.85 billion in Government funds into the housing market, already clipping along toward 1,050,000 new housing starts this year. Its goal: to raise the totals by another 100,000 houses, create 500,000 new jobs this year, and lay a solid floor under those sagging industries that lean heavily on home construction-appliances, lumber, transport...