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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charging railroad lines in the New York area with deliberately providing bad service to drive commuters away and thereby end a money-losing operation, Gilbert delivered a devastating bill of particulars. Notably excepted was the Long Island Railroad, which has come from a commuter's nightmare to something close to a commuter's dream (TIME...
...question now," said one Italian journalist at week's end, "is how much does everybody want?" At least a month of close bargaining among Sicily's eight parties lies ahead. Milazzo, the man with the balance of power, would scarcely be content with anything less than leadership of Sicily's next coalition government...
...London's Sunday Express, Margaret was MOBBED IN AIRPORT BATTLE, while a "grim-faced" Ambassador Sir Charles Stirling looked helplessly on. From then on, the British embassy and Portugal's Police Inspector José Passo were determined that the princess and the Portuguese should never get that close again...
...system is based on a type of seismograph in which a heavy weight is suspended so that it holds still while the earth waves move past it. The slight motion between the weight and electrical elements close to it creates a fluctuating electrical current. Before the current reaches the recording apparatus Pomeroy and Sutton pass it through a special galvanometer-a coil that makes a small weight move against the resistance of a delicate spring. The waves in which they are interested are long and of low frequency (40 to 50 sec.). They found that by choosing a galvanometer with...
Author Miller has written his jungle book in the form of a long memoir from Duke to the psychiatrist assigned to his case at an upstate reform school. The parallel to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is ironic, and too close to be anything but intentional. Miller's gift for mimicking the speech of a bitter, neurotic boy is as true as Salinger's. But Holden Caulfield had a caustically individual twist to his mind, and it was on an exploration of this mind that Salinger concentrated. Miller's book is focused...