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...breakfast he likes papaya and huevos rancheros-fried eggs with spicy tomato sauce on a tortilla, with a side of beans. By 8:30 he is at work, stays at it until 4 p.m., then quits for Mexico City's typically heavy (steak and trimmings), typically drawn-out (two hours) dinner. Back at work at 6 or thereabouts, he works into the evening, then spends an hour or two in a smoking jacket with a detective story or Beethoven on stereophonic hifi. He likes to play canasta and watch fights...
Commissioner Jacobs met with President Dan M. Potter and other members of the Protestant Council but said only that he would pass their objections to his policy along to the Board of Hospitals. Last week the pro-contraception forces prepared for a long and drawn-out battle; the American Jewish Congress and the American Civil Liberties Union called a meeting to set up a citizens' committee and consider preparing a case for testing in the courts. Their position was best summed up by an editorial in the New York Times: "Freedom of religion works both ways; and in this...
Mayor Edward J. Sullivan will face one of his toughest battles in his campaign for reelection, as the city's traditionally drawn-out majoralty race gets under way this morning. Five of the nine elected councilors have announced their candidacy for the chief magistrate's posts...
BRITANNIA CRASH, which killed all 15 of test crew aboard prototype of medium-range model, darkens future of Britain's big commercial turboprop. Cause of disaster is still a mystery, and drawn-out investigation on top of previous production delays (TIME, Sept. 23) is bound to discourage buyers...
...take-home pay. At the same time the pool of labor is being fed only from the small baby crop of the Depression years. The labor shortage allows and encourages unions to press wage demands that add to inflation, forces industries to go along with demands, lest through a drawn-out strike they lose markets to competitors and, eventually, their skilled labor...