Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours. She railed against "capitalist exploiters," but her words fell on a lethargic gathering of scarcely 30 people, even though she was speaking in the grimy 18th arrondissement, the reddest of the Red districts of Paris. In tiny Ecurie (pop. 362), only 15 men and a runny-nosed boy turned out to hear Socialist Guy Mollet review his premiership, blame "the Americans" for preventing the Anglo-French conquest of Suez. Were any problems bothering his listeners? he asked. "Classrooms for our children," responded...
...When I was a boy living in a poor section, coming from hard-working people, it was unknown that the poor would not go to church. It was the last thing that they would neglect. Now, with social security checks and welfare checks coming in, they are not interested in the church. They go from day to day knowing that tomorrow will take care of itself." Gushing clenched his big fists. "Their former dependence on God, upon the personal charity of those representing religion, has been psychologically unsettled by the welfare state...
...generations, nearly every handy American boy read Popular Mechanics magazine. It was the bible of budding scientific and engineering genius, the blueprint to mechanical marvels and monstrosities. But in recent years the 56-year-old magazine has been hard pressed to compete with the wonders of the Missile and Atomic Age; for nearly a year Chicago's H. H. Windsor family has been trying to sell Popular Mechanics (circ. 1,325,735)-Last week it found a buyer: Hearst Corp.'s magazine division.-The buy was shrewdly calculated; magazine circulation is up 23% since 1950, while Hearst...
...four seasons at Dartmouth "none of our first-string quarterbacks have required or received scholarship help." In the Ivy League, explains Harvard's Coach John Yovicsin, "football is one of the most important extracurricular activities. Frankly, that's where it belongs. There is not a boy in the league who has to play football in order to stay in college...
Babies bawled, while their parents attacked box lunches. A little boy fell into an artificial lake and sputtered up, screaming. A little girl got a hula-hoop lesson from her dad. Linda Christian, Ty's exwife, who had put on such a spectacular performance at the Italian burial of her good friend. Auto Racer Alfonso de Portago, made Hollywood headlines by staying away from the funeral at Debbie's request. If the crowd had any disappointment, it was that only one woman fainted...