Word: closers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawyer's fees and payment of debts have cost him $750,000, Beck last week told Seattle Times veteran Labor Reporter Ed Guthman, "but my net worth is closer to $1,000,000 than it is to $300,000." Apart from his $50,000 annual pension from the Teamsters, Beck's income depends on a flourishing real estate business, which he conducts from the basement of the big, rambling Seattle home that he built with Teamster funds (later returned) and sold to the Teamsters Union for $163,000 ("I get by fine and dandy there...
...should not stop at potentially dangerous ideas," stated Rabbi Maurice L. Zigmond, Director of Harvard Hillel. "We must study all the facts, for learning is basic, and learning gives the possibility of choice." Is it too optimistic to believe that such open inquiry will lead the Jew closer to Judaism? Zigmond says that he is not worried about Jews merely flirting with commitment "because there will be commitment at some time or another...
...kept coming back to, the President was pleased and impressed by De Gaulle's new initiative there toward settlement (see FOREIGN NEWS). On NATO, the President restrained De Gaulle's widely bruited hopes for a sort of NATO three-power directorate by promising principally to keep in closer touch with more man-to-man transatlantic phone talks. Ike emphasized to De Gaulle, as he re-emphasized in parallel talks with NATO Officers M.J.M.A.H. Luns of The Netherlands and Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium, with Italy's visiting Premier Antonio...
Finally, after a 15-minute pounding, a green flare lit the sky, and the barrage ceased. Communist infantrymen in force dashed 50 yds. closer to the beleaguered village, hit the dirt when a second red flare reopened the mortar barrage. With alternate barrages and infantry rushes, the attackers steadily closed in, got so near the entrenchments that the defenders could hear orders shouted in the Vietnamese, Thai and Kha dialects. Some of the enemy wore the olive drab uniforms of the North Viet Nam army; others the traditional ebony clothing that gives the name of Black Thai to the dissident...
Last week, at the trial of the sergeants in Izmir's humid, jampacked courthouse, there was little public evidence that all this display of official activity had yet brought anyone much closer to the truth...