Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...covering Washington newsheets for the Kiplinger Washington Letter. A veteran (Air Intelligence), he became a Nevadan in 1945, married the daughter of a wealthy Wells (Nev.) rancher. In Washington, Tom was a hard-digging reporter with an unquenchable idealism. Said a fellow Kiplinger staffer: "Tom's the slow burn type. But when he gets mad. he'll pop." Tom Mechling's slow burn began with the stories Margaret carried home evenings from her patronage job as a stenographer on Pat McCarran's Immigration subcommittee. Angered by the highhanded tactics of Nevada's silver-thatched Senator...
Between games, Ham and Bill sipped orange juice to restore the sugar balance in their blood. Later they had lunch with the campers, and Talbert explained how he came to take up tennis in the first place: to burn up sugar and so cut down his insulin take. The kids could see for themselves that there was really nothing to prevent a diabetic from becoming a top-flight athlete, although one or two frankly wondered how Old Man Talbert could keep up the pace...
...another was the "Spirits of the Dead," led by a soccer player named Elijah, who used his soccer medals to persuade the tribesmen that he was divine. The Mau-Mau is the most feared and successful of them all. From their jungle hideouts, Mau-Mau raiders burn the huts of tribesmen who go to work for the white man (at 7? a day), murder white farmers with knobkerries and assagais, snipe at British officials...
...afire and rushed to shout a warning. By the time he arrived, the only escape was from the lake side of the house into a motor launch. Out on the safety of the lake, clad only in their night clothes, Hoover, his host, and other guests watched the lodge burn to the ground within ten minutes...
...farming; they eat food that was once profitably exported. On the other hand, their needs create work. The country's setbacks hit them first. At Bonegilla, a wartime camp of wooden huts, where immigrants are instructed in the English language and Australian customs, 2,300 Italians threatened to burn down the camp if not given work. Time to Absorb. Reluctantly, Immigration Minister Harold Holt flew off to Europe to ask governments there to cut their immigration quotas. Next year Australia will accept only 80,000 immigrants, about half the average intake of the last four years. Said Holt...