Word: behind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stringing Along. In Riva Trigoso, Italy, Giacomino Bianchini won a silver fork for eating 1.1 Ibs. of spaghetti in 34 minutes with his hands tied behind his back...
...after each stagnant period it has moved again in full flow. In ancient Rome the statuary was a way of life, as much a part of the city as the humans who walked the streets. That way of life seemed ended when the barbaric Goths came pillaging, leaving behind them ruins of Roman art. But the Goths themselves, even while deriving from the Romans, gave their name to an art form that took its own place in the cultural current. Henry Moore draws from this past, as from the past of the savage idol carvers of Africa, Central America...
Rifles & Cribs. The fire started early one gusty afternoon in a trash barrel behind an old folks' home outside of town. In an hour the flames had reached the first trees above, and the whole ridge to the north and west of town roared as the fire leaped through treetops, gobbling up great stands of ponderosa pine in one crackling rush. Townsmen quickly set to work spraying and shoveling under flames that licked down toward houses at the edge of town. National Guardsmen rolled in with bulldozers to make a firebreak. Fire fighters rushed in from Colorado, Montana...
...their jobs through automation. Regarded as a milestone in industrial attempts to soften the impact of work-saving machines on employment, the fund will be operated by a joint management-labor committee with an impartial outsider as chairman. Other packers, such as Oscar Mayer, Cudahy and Hygrade, fell in behind Armour, but Swift and Wilson held out. Swift agreed to the wage raises but balked at new fringe benefits and insisted on wage cuts in seven of its Southern plants to make "costs competitive with other plants in the same areas." As a result, the unions pulled...
Born. To Minot Frazier ("Mickey") Jelke, 30, paunchy margarine heir who operated a $50-$500 call-girl service out of his Manhattan apartment, spent 21 months behind bars for procuring; and Sylvia Eder, onetime silver-haired model, who filed for divorce last July, a second son; in Hollywood, Fla. Name: Minot Frazier II. The Jelkes were reconciled by the birth and are now, according to Sylvia, "very happy...