Word: boons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn of the century, Gertrude followed her brother Leo to Paris. Leo was the art pundit and collector in those early days, but he was everlastingly tinkering with his psyche, so that when a San Francisco spinster named Alice Babette Toklas appeared, "soft, small, and warmly murmurous," Gertrude switched boon companions for life. The two gentle ladies from America enjoyed living in the eye of the bohemian hurricane. There was the writer André Salmon, who foamed at the mouth with delirium (he later claimed it was soap) and nibbled the trimmings on Alice Toklas' hat. There was Alfred...
Racial Intermarriage. Fitzpatrick sees the Puerto Rican migration as a real boon to New York and America. Unlike the previous immigrants, the Puerto Ricans bring with them a history of rack-tolerance and a tradition of social intermingling that lets them marry people of other skin colors, from Negroes to whites...
Long Division. In Singapore, after telling the court he could not repay $3,300 to his 26 creditors at one time, Low Chin Boon got 83 years in which to settle...
...desert is beginning to bloom under U.S. irrigation engineers in places such as Wadi Caam, barren since the Roman aqueducts crumbled away. Last year the U.S. built 37 schools and equipped five teachers' training colleges (the nation has only 25 college graduates). In what may prove the greatest boon of all to the Libyan standard of living, after four years of probing the desert crust for oil, Esso Standard (Libya) last month drew an astonishing 17,500 bbl. a day in a test run of its first Zelten field well, hopefully spudded in Zelten...
...successful is Ray Garvey at the taxpayer's expense that even he sometimes has his doubts. "We operate under the program," he said last week. "We don't set it." He need not worry: the U.S. Congress, touting the farm subsidy program as a boon to the small farmer, still seems more than willing to go on making multimillionaires out of the Ray Hugh Garveys...