Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel mills and barrooms of Aliquippa, Pa., the men who make steel heatedly debate one subject. They beat it to pieces during Coke breaks in the fiery shadows of the open hearths, carry it into the Balkan Café and the Mill City Inn and Ernie's Steak House, hash it out in their homes. The crucial subject: the Pittsburgh Pirates, once the door mat of the National League but at week's end five games from first place...
...would have been confusing enough. Of all Europe's confusing enclaves, none is quite so complex. The border between the two countries runs so crazily that in one place a man can switch countries just by walking from his bedroom into his living room. The frontier slices one café's billiard table in two, and there was a time when players on one side would have to quit at 11 p.m. while those on the other could keep going until midnight. In 1942, the occupying Nazis proclaimed the whole district to be Dutch, but the very next...
...Algerian rebels themselves, getting nowhere in Algeria, are reviving their campaign of terrorism in France itself. In the past three weeks Moslem terrorists have been machine-gunning cafés and police stations in Paris, mostly directing their attacks on fellow Algerians. Twelve have been killed, among them an 18-year-old English chorus girl accidentally shot down on her way to work at the Folies-Bèrgere...
...Algiers, café owners chalked up the good news on their sport scoreboards, and the government radio blared the achievement: "The fate of Amirouche is the fate of all rebel leaders." But French fighting men were not so optimistic. Said famed Paratroop Major General Jacques Massu: "Amirouche is dead, but they'll find another...
...generalissimo live in terror of his death. Ostensibly, Franco is paving the way for a restoration of Spain's old Bourbon monarchy once he himself disappears from the scene, and virtually all Spaniards, save the Communists, pay lip service to this plan. Yet in Spain's cafés, Franco's followers and foes whisper of the day after his death in another vein. Fearfully, they predict: "Back to the streets with pistols...