Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Togliatti could subdue the party regulars inside the hall, a more resounding verdict was delivered outside. Workers of Turin's Michelin tire plant, voting as the eighth congress was about to adjourn, registered a drop in Communist strength (from 60% to 26% of the total vote), to throw the Red-dominated union out of control of its shop stewards' committee for the first time since World...
...McCann-Erickson, Inc., Esso Standard Oil Co. The plans of Manhattan Architects Wallace K. Harrison and Max Abramovitz (whose firm helped design Rockefeller Center, the United Nations building and many of the new Pittsburgh skyscrapers) call for a massive rectangular tower rising from two setbacks at the third and eighth floors, with the main entrance through a promenade with gardens and fountain pools...
...families. Pate's parents own a farm in the poor clay hills of southern Illinois; Wilson's live in a rickety three-room house in a company-owned lumber town in north-central Louisiana. Both youths quit school early-Pate in the ninth grade, Wilson in the eighth. They were in the Army at 17, fighting in Korea as infantrymen in the U.S. 7th Division the following year. Both were captured near Chosin Reservoir in December 1950. After that came prison camp, Panmunjom and life under Communism...
Italian headline writers found a welcoming name for 54-year-old Soviet Polit-burocrat Mikhail Suslov: "The Butcher of Budapest." The butcher, accompanied by Russia's ranking woman Communist, Ekaterina Furtseva, was on his way to Rome to lay down the line to the eighth congress of the Italian Communist Party, which until the events in Hungary claimed 2,130,000 members (probable current membership: less than 1,500,000). Suslov is the least known of the top half dozen Kremlin leaders, but what is known of him is not endearing: he is a flinty, ascetic Stalinist, a specialist...
Barnaby's main problem lies with the bottom two positions on the team. At present, Bob Hartley, back at Harvard after three years in the Service, seems to be in the eighth position, but a group of six players, Pete Lund, Hank Holmes, Tom Lee, Bob Magowan, Ed Wadsworth, and Kent Allen, are all in contention for the ninth spot...