Word: calendars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milestones last week in the crowded calendar of widowed Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor and freshly divorced Crooner Eddie Fisher: both made beaming appearances at a banquet honoring Old Vaudevillian George Jessel, where Liz chipped in $100,000 for some Israel bonds; Eddie hosted a surprise 27th birthday party for his lovely friend, gave her a purse studded with 27 diamonds; Liz leased a Nevada desert ranch, just to be near Eddie during a Las Vegas saloon engagement next month...
...amount of light they get. Normally, sheep breed only once a year, when the autumn days begin to shorten. By changing the lighting indoors, Purdue can make sheep think it is autumn any time of the year, get two or more lamb crops, schedule spring lamb around the calendar...
Cordiner will not have to retire until 1965, but he has planned his retirement as carefully as G.E.'s future (friends are convinced he has the date and hour marked on his calendar right now). Four years ago he bought a cattle ranch on Florida's west coast to prepare for his retirement. There, on 1,820 acres, he has set up "decentralization on the farm," intends to build a "Cordiner Motel" some distance away for his visiting daughters and their families, under his longtime policy of "decentralization in the home...
...calendar of the triumphs, defeats and contortions of the human spirit during...
...people of Kukang, and all of Quemoy, now live-and die-by the calendar. On the odd days of the month, when Red shells pour thunderously in from the mainland, the people of Kukang stay holed in their shelters-grandmothers, babies, ducks and chickens squeezed tightly into dank caves, protected from the cold November winds only by tattered curtains of sacking. Their schools long since closed, children play in the caves with chunks of shrapnel. Night closes in early. By 6 p.m. the people have cleaned their bowls of rice, bean curd and cabbage and settled down on straw mats...