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...which two highly skilled technicians produce as much as was formerly turned out by 50 men. At the start of 1955, such automated factories were a great worry to U.S. labor leaders, who feared widespread unemployment. But as they took a harder look at automation, the fears began to fade. If the U.S. standard of living keeps expanding, as everyone expects, the great problem will be a continuing labor shortage...
Anna Magnani had sharpened her passions on a flinty fate. She was born about 47 years ago and brought up on the wrong side of the Tiber. Her mother was a working girl and her father did a fade when Anna was a month old. At 17, she won admission to a dramatic school, and soon joined a rundown roadshow as a singer of stornelli, the street songs of a country where the streets are seldom cleaned...
...Hook's was decidedly the stronger win. He scored two on the takedown, then chose the defensive position where his superior height aided a quick reverse. His strength did not fade...
...signals tend to fade out a few miles beyond the horizon...
...wasn't as enthusiastic about it as she was, but he went along with it." Amid the glamour, the Woodwards' domestic life was anything but serene. As Bill matured, he grew more attractive to women, and Ann, five years older and desperately hiding the fact, began to fade. There were frequent quarrels, embarrassing scenes, separations and reconciliations. Seven years ago the two seriously discussed divorce, but called it off for the sake of their two young sons. Bill was rumored to be enamored of an Italian princess at one time; Ann saw a lot of Aly Khan during...