Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...records of three Goldfine textile companies to an 80-man Internal Revenue task force fine-combing Goldfine's bewildering financial empire for tax fraud. And as though two contempt trials were not enough, a third gets under way this week. The Securities and Exchange Commission got Goldfine summoned back into Boston's Federal Court, accused him of ignoring a 1955 court order by failing to file last November a semiannual SEC Form 9-K on the East Boston...
...medicated, is getting longer and longer. Meeting in New Orleans last week, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners-the state-government officials in charge of insurance matters-okayed a new mortality table that showed a dramatic rise in life expectancy since the current official table was approved in 1941. Back in 1941, as insurance actuaries figured it, the life expectancy of a newborn infant in the U.S. was 62 years; in the new table the figure is 68 years. The 1941-58 increase, largely a result of antibiotics and other medical advances, is about equal to the life-expectancy increase...
...with that the onetime Premier of Russia, and Nikita Khrushchev's onetime convivial traveling companion, shuffled back to his seat and the brightest fate he could hope for-oblivion...
Bulganin said that at the end he had voted right, i.e., to uphold Khrushchev's leadership. But "I accepted all subsequent [demotions] as deserved by me and necessary to the party. I have sincerely confessed my mistakes. I have asked the Central Committee to get me back on the party rails. I ask only that it let me fullfill the duties which have been entrusted to me, the duties of chairman of the Stavropol economic council, and I shall endeavor without sparing my energies to remove from myself this spot of shame...
...Nazim Heikmet, operates. Sherif returned to Iraq last July. Since the Communist Party is nominally illegal in Iraq, Sherif heads a three-man politburo which calls itself the "Iraqi High Committee." The overall Communist boss inside the Arab world is Syria's Khaled Bakdash, whom Nasser let back into Syria last October as one payoff for his arms aid from Moscow...