Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major retreat from his "purification" campaign, Prime Minister Fidel Castro restored legal gambling in all its old splendor of brocade draperies, deep carpets, clicking dice and turning wheels. Running the show from behind the scenes were the same U.S. mobsters who bossed gambling for Batista...
Over the River. When he was 16, Harry got fed up, left George Washington High School, and six months later joined the U.S. Navy. The experience, he remembers, was "like taking a deep breath." Assigned in 1944 to an all-Negro unit, many of whose members were college graduates, he became interested for the first time in Negro history. The other highlight of his naval career was his meeting with a well-to-do Negro girl named Frances Marguerite Byrd, who was a student at Virginia's Hampton Institute, where Harry was in training. He immediately recognized...
...celebrated Chicago speech charging TV with "decadence and escapism."Reporter-Entertainer Murrow was stripped down to the chitchat of TV's Person to Person and Small World, a daily radio news report and an occasional guest shot as a big-name narrator. Moreover, Ed Murrow got into deep water with his scarcely responsible The Business of Sex (TIME, Jan. 26 et seq.). Last week Ed Murrow indulged in a little escapism of his own, announced he would take a year's leave of absence from CBS for "traveling, listening, reading and trying to learn." Murrow, now 50, insists...
...biggest pocketbook behind Vision belongs to Board Chairman J. Noel Macy, of the family that controls a profitable string of nine dailies in New York's wealthy Westchester County. Barlow, who has steered through plenty of adversity of his own, will merge Tide's ankle-deep circulation (12,825) with the weekly Printers' Ink (circ. 32,231), another property in the wide-angle field of Vision, and hope for a change in publishing trade winds...
...Phillips started buying his 19,600 acres along the west shores of Salton Sea for $2.4 million, divided it into 54,000 lots, most of them about one-third of an acre. Thus far, 11,000 lots have been developed with streets and water (from a 658-ft.-deep artesian well), and close to 7,000 have been sold despite their high ($2,000 to $4,000) price tags...