Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inexhaustible, had had enough. At his first appearance, they booed and catcalled for 20 minutes, while Lewis nervously ran a comb through his long hair. "Go home, baby snatcher!" they screamed. "Go wheel your wife in a pram!" After one more such appearance, Jerry's managers decided to call the tour off. "I did want to stay here long enough to get a wedding ring," whimpered Myra at the airport. Fumed Jerry: "I don't feel guilty about nuttin...
...toasted ants it is always a seller's market in Colombia. A favorite cocktail delicacy, and popularly reputed to give their eaters courage, they are so highly regarded that Colombians call them the "caviar of Santander." The only thing they dislike about the ants this season is the sky-high price of ten pesos ($1.34) per lb. (about 150 ants...
...Censor's Scoop. Some of the censors helped. One agency, blessed with an ex-newsman as a censor, put him to work calling ministries for check points. The first news the Associated Press got of trouble on Corsica came when a censor declared that any mention of the uprising there was forbidden. The Paris A.P. desk got a call through to its stringer on the island before communications were cut off, put the story on the U.S. wire (which was not censored) for a solid 15-minute beat...
...followed the G.M. formula for operating in the no-contract period. If there are no contracts by the end of June, automakers may shut down. With a backlog of 760,000 cars, automakers prefer a showdown in the next few weeks to giving the union a chance to call a strike at the crucial model-changeover time...
...advantage is relatively low pay scales ($7,000 for a Connie captain v. $21,000 in the U.S.). Another is crack maintenance that cuts costly engine failures to about half the world airline average. Net result: a 52% jump since 1953 in what Qantas Boss Turner likes to call "bottoms uplifted...