Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paving-and Salk vaccine-got patient, unsmiling audiences but few promises. A worker on the state railways wanted a transfer to another job: Aramburu crisply reminded him that the railways have 30,000 surplus employees. A delegation wanted the government to build their city a recreation hall. "For a billiard parlor?" asked Aramburu. "That sport of idlers...
...idea is a good one, only it should be expanded. Bowling alleys, billiard tables, and a swimming pool should be available. For the more aesthetic, bongo drums and dart boards should be present. No expense should be spared to further mutual understanding and intellectual advancement. The Radcliffe Administration should give serious consideration to this suggestion, and ignore those penny-pinching party-poopers who just advocate keeping Agassiz open a few hours more...
Died. Avraamy Pavlovich Zavenyagin, 55, billiard-bald chief (since 1955) of Russia's euphemistically titled Ministry of Medium Machine Building (i.e., atomic-energy commission ), wartime overseer of much of the slave-labor force; of a coronary thrombosis; in Moscow...
Safer Than Driving. Right from the start of last week's meet, Paul MacCready rode the upcurrents as surely as Willie Hoppe playing the caroms on a billiard table. He finished second in the freeflight for distance, covering 241.7 miles, moved out in front in overall standings with a fifth in the 62-mile race south to St. Etienne, and in the next event, an Alpine flight, he practically flew off with the title...
...fortunes of his followers he purchased an estate in Somerset, named it Agapemone (Abode of Love), and moved in with about 60 "brothers" and "sisters." The Abode featured a church with stained-glass windows, but which differed from most churches in its other furnishings, e.g., there was a billiard table, a Persian carpet and "a red sofa near a bright fire...