Word: donning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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No one begs in the Dominican Republic. First offense draws six months on the work farm, the second offense a couple of years, the third, life imprisonment. "Either they work," said my guide, "or they don't eat." Nor is there much unofficial crime, petty thievery and such. What...
Last week, as his Belgian-born wife Tonia looked on and "prayed all the time," 38-year-old Don Campbell took Bluebird, slightly modified with stabilizing fin and redesigned rudder, in a foam-washed scud across the smooth surface of Lake Coniston in Lancashire at 275.15 m.p.h., negotiated the return...
"I had come a far piece," he recalls of his departure from Little Rock, in a new book entitled It Has Happened Here (Harper; $2.95). "Little Rock was a classic example of what a community should not let extremists do to it. I did not think it could happen ... I...
The picnic takes place on the go-acre estate of one "Pop" Larkin (Paul Douglas), a beer-bellied, golden-hearted. Godsend-payday paragon of the old-fashioned vices: civic irresponsibility and the right to shirk. Inevitably, the Internal Revenue Service (Tony Randall) tries to catch up with him. "I'...
480 Stewardesses. For fiscal 1959, MATS was directed by Congress to spend a minimum of $80 million on contracts to commercial carriers but actually spent only $69 million, 11% of its total budget. Hardest hit by MATS' competitive policy are the small all-cargo airlines, who depend on Government...