Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when I die Bury me with my head under the tap So that if a drop of that very good wine falls I can get some good...
TRUSTBUSTERS' THREATS of court action forced Texaco and Superior Oil Co. (Calif.) to drop merger plans (TIME, June 29). Merger would have given Texaco, second largest integrated U.S. producer and refiner, the advantage of Superior's huge reserves in Venezuela and U.S. Victory was Justice Department's biggest since it halted Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. merger last year...
...Consumer Price Index in August declined .1% from the July record to 124.8% of the 1947-49 average, the first decline in the index since last February. Primary reason: a .9% drop in food prices, which made up for an average increase of .2% in nonfood commodities and services...
...lover of Hersey's story is Buzz Marrow, pilot of a bomber called The Body, so named because of the nude painted on its nose. Buzz looks like a burly motorcycle cop, rakes over his crew in billingsgate, yips earsplitting war whoops as the bombs drop away, and slavers over off-duty hobbies that would make good latrine-wall copy. Why diffident Copilot Charles Boman, the novel's first-person narrator, hero-worships Buzz is a mystery, but it is presumably because Marrow oozes self-confidence and is a genius at the flight controls. Poor Bo is colorless...
Freshmen continued to lead all contributors, giving some 55 per cent of the total. The Class of 1962 last fall donated 83 per cent. If all pledges are filled, the freshman share will drop to slightly less than half...