Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Windfall. In Hartford, Conn., after stirring up a row when he announced that police would use unmarked cars to catch speeders, State Police Commissioner Leo J. Mulcahy felt vindicated when someone slashed the tires of eleven well-marked patrol cars outside the police barracks...
Harsh Discipline. The new rules should make it much easier to fill vacancies in the ranks. But each guardsman must still reckon with his tough C.O.: tall, ramrod-rigid Colonel Robert Nunlist, 48, onetime member of Switzerland's General Staff, who was appointed commander in 1957. Nunlist felt that discipline had deteriorated during the long illness of the previous commander, set out to whip the troop into shape. His soldiers are kept taut with tongue-lashings, stern punishments for minor infractions. Nunlist's strictness nearly cost him his life last April, when a discharged guardsman shot...
...Both the Queen and Prince Philip have always been anxious to have more children, and they are very happy about it." said a palace spokesman. Most everybody in Britain apparently felt the same way. When the 33-year-old Queen and her family withdrew for the weekend to bleak Balmoral Castle, Scotland, thousands of curious tourists jammed the neighborhood, and extra police were rushed to Balmoral to fend off rubbernecks...
...more concern last week over the coming exchange of visits between President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) than joy in the continued outpouring of record earnings. Some investors in companies with big defense contracts, or in the missile-and space-based electronics industry, dumped their stocks. They felt that any warming in the cold war might bring a cutback in defense orders, even though most Wall Streeters believe that an end to the cold war would be bullish, since it would open the way for a cut in the U.S. budget and in taxes. The Dow-Jones industrial...
...Sunday last spring, a tough-faced, balding Indiana builder named James Robert Price decided to get ready for the building boom of the 19603 in the fastest way possible. Though he is the boss of National Homes Corp., the world's biggest maker of prefabricated houses, Jim Price felt that not even National was big enough for what lay ahead. That week he walked into the company's Lafayette, Ind. executive offices, pointed to a map and said: "I want a plant here, here and here...