Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tubman, hoping to get Liberia's support. But that old pol was not eager to join such vigorous upstarts. He called federation "unrealistic and Utopian." The leaders of the British colony of Nigeria, one of the richest and largest (pop. 35 million) territories on the Guinea coast, make no secret of their irritation at Nkrumah's ambitions. "Nkrumah." Federal Prime Minister Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa said recently, "cannot expect the rest of Africa to dance around...
Died. Artur Rodzinski, 64, master builder of symphony orchestras; of a heart ailment; in Boston. Born on Yugoslavia's Dalmatian coast, Rodzinski was the son of a Polish surgeon in the Austrian army. Holder of a doctorate in law from the University of Vienna, he preferred music, came to the U.S. in 1925 on the invitation of Leopold Stokowski. His talent for developing orchestras, which even exceeded his art as a conductor, brought prestigious results in Los Angeles, Cleveland and New York, where Rodzinski took over the listless Philharmonic in 1943. Considering himself hamstrung by management, he stormily quit...
CHARLES LUCKMAN, onetime wonder-boy boss of Lever Bros., has bought out Partner William L. Pereira, and each will form his own West Coast architectural business. Insiders say Luckman's razzle-dazzle rubbed against conservative Pereira...
...airlines climbing out of the labor fog last week was National Airlines, whose routes stretch along the Atlantic Coast to Florida. On Dec. 10 National will inaugurate the first domestic jet airliner service with daily flights on the rich New York-Miami run. Using 600-m.p.h. Boeing 707s under a complicated lease-stock deal with Pan American, which already flies jets across the Atlantic, National will make the 1,100-mile run in 2 hr. 15 min. To make sure that it can fly jets, National signed contracts with its pilots, flight engineers and mechanics running into...
Insurance will cover the cost of damage to the building and to the Club's interior. Firemen broke down walls in the television room, and the Club bar was destroyed. No damage was caused, however, to the Cafe Mozart or to the Gold Coast Valeteria, which occupy the ground floor...