Word: areas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Preliminary plans call for the new dining area to seat about 50. It will be built in place of the coat room that presently adjoins the main dining hall. The room will be connected to the main section by a sliding door, and will be constructed with partitions that could divide the room if necessary...
...nuclear age. The Seventh has to be ready, perhaps for years to come, for instant attack from the nuclear-armed U.S.S.R. land and air forces poised across the border. It offers enemy nuclear missiles no good targets, encamps no unit bigger than a battalion in a single area. Senior officers roam distant outposts to make unannounced tests of how fast and accurately the outposts could report a Russian tank attack to Army headquarters...
Faded Star. Its Jewishness has been systematically squelched. There has been no significant influx of the Soviet Union's 2,500,000 Jews since World War II. The total population of an area twice the size of New Jersey is barely 160,000, "half Jewish, two-thirds urban." Young Jews leave to seek better opportunities elsewhere; Frankel met one in the train who spoke with "contempt" of the city of Birobidzhan (pop. 60,000) as "a city of three streets...
...cleaned garments should be kept away from children. So far, across the U.S. more than 30 deaths (including at least one adult suicide) have been blamed on the bags. Most victims have been young children, with four (aged four months to two years) in Arizona's Phoenix area alone. Reason for the concentration there is the low humidity: dry air increases the plastic's tendency to develop a charge of static electricity and adhere to anything around. After the bag covers a child's mouth and nose, he soon becomes too faint to coordinate his actions...
WASHINGTON--Two labor union officials, accused of exacting payments from New York area newspaper and printing firms, pleaded the Fifth Amendment Thursday as Senate investigators tried unsuccessfully to make them talk...