Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Safe & Comfortable. After his usual two-day sojourn at the Ambassador last week, Ramfis climbed into a dark green Cadillac and rolled northwest along State Highway 45 to Fort Leavenworth, Kans. His driver stuck to a prescribed route, minding strict instructions to "watch the high bluffs [where a sniper might lurk] and proceed swiftly." Through the day Ramfis sat attentively with his 620 classmates at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College...
...both feet and half an arm, lying on its back. His diagnosis: amputations following "a typical case of Buerger's disease, i.e., gangrene caused by thromboangiitis obliterans" (an inflammatory disease affecting blood vessels). In the same picture another male figure drags wasted legs behind him as he creeps along on both hands. Writes Torrilhon: either syphilitic tabes or poliomyelitis...
While many Caracas publishers went along with the dictatorship, Capriles stretched his dangerous liberty to the point of mimeographing wire stories critical of the government and passing them to restive army officers. On New Year's Day, after the abortive air-force revolt at Maracay, submachine-gun-toting security police bundled Capriles off to jail, where he was later joined by his brother, Marco, Ultimas Noticias' circulation manager. Carlos, a third brother, fled to Colombia, while five top Capriles editors went into hiding or exile. By last week all were back at work in Caracas...
...Chrysler's President Lester Lum Colbert implicitly deny it. "Tex" Colbert insisted that automakers can still have a good year "as soon as we get over this psychological thing" of recession-minded customers. "Prices are only a part of competition," he said. "You just can't go along with supply and demand. You price over a long-range program." Chrysler tried smaller cars in 1953-54. They were shunned in favor of larger (and cheaper) models made by G.M. and Ford. Chrysler tried cutting prices up to $274 a car. "What did that do for our volume?" asked...
...issue was the turbulent Snake River along the Idaho-Oregon border, main tributary of the great Columbia and potential source of 3,600,000 kw. of the minimum 6,500,000 needed in the Northwest by 1967. There, unlike its previous decision in favor of three private dams at Hells...