Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corruption arising from the hearing room of the U.S. Senate committee investigating labor racketeering last week began to show profound effects within and upon U.S. organized labor. Since the aroma emanated mostly-so far-from Frank Brewster, head of the Western Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (see box), it was the Teamsters who felt the first and greatest impact...
...fellow Jews died in the last two years of Hitler's war. In the cold drizzle of a wintry Sunday morning last week, some 1,500 young Germans journeyed out to Belsen to lay flowers on her grave. A Hamburg jazz club emptied its cash box so that 80 members could charter a bus; another 300 young people pedaled on bikes to the camp. "We older people," said a government official, "have had the Jews on our consciences ever since the war, and now our children are inheriting that guilt...
...audiences were receptive but occasionally puzzled. The sitar itself is a confusing-looking instrument, shaped like an oversized guitar (up to 12 ft. long) and equipped with six playing strings, 13 "sympathetic" resonating strings, and two gourds which serve as sound box and resonator. Indian music is based on melodic forms known as ragas. Neither scales nor modes, ragas are separate, individual series of notes-there are thousands of different ragas-most of them passed orally from one musician to another. In combination with the drummer's rhythm, a raga gives the starting theme of a composition. The sitar...
Other good drivers are usually also excellent mechanics. Not Portago. Before one of his first races (at Sebring in 1954), he and his co-driver took their car's gear box apart. When they got it together again, there were 54 nuts and bolts left over. Practical knowledge of their machine's innards helps other drivers get the most out of their engines. Alfonso keeps a steady foot on the throttle, a sure hand on the wheel and leaves the rest to luck. In a race like this week's test at Sebring, so much...
...millionaire happy. Opening, closing and locking the trunk is done automatically by electronic controls. Seats, steering, windows and brakes are power-operated; air conditioning is standard equipment. And as a final bow to happy motoring, the door of the glove compartment is custom-fitted with a cigarette case, tissue box, vanity case, lipstick and four gold-finished drinking cups...