Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three bullets snapped through the sultry Cyprus air. Dead on the pavement lay Police Superintendent Donald Murray Thompson, a crumpled symbol of the decision last week by the rebel EOKA to end its jittery truce with the British military government. Next day, on the streets of ancient, walled Nicosia (pop. 60,000), the only unarmed Britons abroad were those who had to be: reporters for the jaunty Times of Cyprus (circ...
...drawings prove, he said that one can make a favorable caricature even with a big nose, and an unfavorable caricature even with a small nose. Moreover, "since the public commonly says that politicians cannot see farther than the end of their noses, my caricatures give De Gaulle the opportunity to be much more farseeing." On top of that, he went on, the general himself likes the drawings. Wrote De Gaulle in a letter to Combat: "The sketches of Pinatel are at once droll and melancholy, like life itself...
COSTLIER AIR TRAVEL is in the wind. American Airlines, nation's biggest, has petitioned CAB to end first-class roundtrip discounts, reduce family-plan discounts from 50% to 33⅓% effective...
...worry in Detroit was still the threat of an auto strike. United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther promised to set the date this week for a strike, unless the Big Three fatten their six-month-old offer of a two-year contract extension. At week's end Reuther himself rejoined the contract talks for the first time since June 1, and both sides appeared optimistic. But wildcat strikes also continued to spread. Some 27,000 workers had walked off the job, by far the largest number since auto industry contracts expired 14 weeks...
Scared Silly. As the pressure built up, Idlewild gave grudging ground at week's end. It granted a 30-day extension to Pan Am to continue nonpassenger 707 flight tests between New York and Puerto Rico, allowing night flights and lifting the plane's weight restrictions from 190,000 Ibs. to the fully loaded capacity of 247,000 Ibs. But planes will still be required to follow strict flight and climb patterns that minimize annoyance to householders, because the Authority, said one airman, is still "scared silly" by its lawyers' warnings of possible householders' damage suits...