Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago when Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud, 59, seized the premiership of the Sudan at the head of a military junta, he did not indulge in the Middle East's usual inaugural blood bath. Leaders of the old regime were neither jailed nor harmed. Two former Prime Ministers even got liberal pensions...
...been enjoying it both ways. The spirit behind Sweden's elaborate welfare state comes from a quarter of a century of Socialist rule, but the money that supports it is provided by an economy that is almost entirely capitalist free enterprise. Last year Socialist Premier Tage Erlander promised even more welfare benefits on the easy, easy. He proposed legislation to guarantee workers over 67 years old a lifetime pension amounting to two-thirds of their average earnings at the peak 15 years of their working lives. Who would pay? Why, employers would bear the costs, getting tax relief...
...tenement for three days, then left in a steel locker to suffocate to death while Anglo-French search parties were combing the neighborhood. As a museum honoring the "heroes" who had kidnaped him, it would display Moorhouse's identity card, the locker in which he was kept, and even the rope that bound...
...Even Harry Truman got into the act, with a judgment that Fidel Castro "would be all right if he had a haircut and decent clothes...
...with its schedule, selling the advertising time to Canadian firms. CBS produces almost all the rest of its shows, and with two exceptions-Ford Startime (half of its programs are imported, half produced for Ford of Canada by CBC) and the CBC-produced General Motors Presents-a sponsor cannot even worm his name into a show's title. CBC bars commercials from not only the middle but also the beginning and end of all its news and public-affairs programs...