Word: bays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firmly to their spontaneous general strike (TIME, Aug. 12). then gradually drifted back to their jobs. Most Havana workers, making near-record wages, ignored the call. Going up were four new skyscraper hotels. A new superhighway was snaking west from the city along the sea front, and underneath Havana Bay, a 20-lane tunnel needed only five more months of work before it would open up an entire new city-East Havana-being built across the bay...
...made the most of a Giant fumble with the slippery ball, swiftly passed his collegians 55 yds. toward the pros' goal, sent Illinois' Abe Woodson scampering downfield and shot Wake Forest Fullback Billy Ray Barnes across to score. But when Notre Dame's Paul Hornung (Green Bay Packers) missed the extra point, the All-Stars had to settle for a 6-0 lead. The Giants settled for something more: crack performances by two of their oldest, saltiest veterans. Ben Agajanian, 38, Giant kicking master for seven years, stepped delicately onto the muddy field to score a three...
...news of Manny Manahan's decision to run on his own was wafted to pleased Carlos Garcia, cruising in Manila Bay on the presidential yacht Santa Maria. He hoped that Manahan's decision would split the vote of the anti-Garcia Magsaysay forces. The election will not be until November, but with both major conventions out of the way, Garcia at the beginning of the race has to be reckoned a slight favorite...
Scarcely one of Britain's honored regiments escaped unchanged. The famed Brigade of Guards will retain their regimental cap badges, but the Coldstream and Grenadier Guards will lose one battalion each. The First King's Dragoon Guards (given permission in 1767 to ride long-tailed, bay mounts while others ride black horses) will be merged with the Queen's Bays...
...Leadership. Twice Diefenbaker tried unsuccessfully for the leadership of his party, losing the second time to George Alexander Drew, who as a powerful premier of Ontario had maintained excellent relations with his party's big-money contributors on Toronto's Bay Street. As starchy George Drew led his party twice to electoral defeat, Diefenbaker built up successively bigger votes for himself...