Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Baton Rouge from a nightclubbing 17-day vacation in Texas, Mexico and Arkansas, Louisiana's Governor Earl Long abruptly called his state legislature together in special session to consider a slate of 21 bills he wanted passed. The "urgent" agenda ran from vengeful bills against Long'...
But most of all, foreign oil companies were doubtful that oil could be got out through war-torn Algeria. The F.L.N. rebels, insisting that the French Sahara is an inseparable part of Algeria (although most Algerian Moslems fear the Sahara and have traditionally avoided it), swore to destroy any oil...
The chief executives of the three largest U.S. steel companies faced a task that was a mixture of. pride and embarrassment. With the steel union in its third week of a strike for higher wages, they went before reporters and microphones last week to announce the biggest sales and earnings...
This is not to imply that I consider Macbeth Shakespeare's greatest work. Othello is his greatest play (Macaulay went so far as to call it "the greatest work in the world"), or at least his grandest; it is his most masterfully constructed, and for once the quality of the...
The rabbi also laid the cornerstones for several major Hasidic projects in Israel, including a new five-story rabbinical-study center, a new housing project near Tel Aviv, an old people's home. Perhaps his most dramatic operation concerns Tel Aviv's long-embattled public swimming pool, which...