Word: finding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your June 1 article on Senator Fulbright and Ogden Reid, it appears that the main object of the piece was to have an excuse to indulge in name-calling. To save me, I could not find anything improper in the questions the Senator asked the aspiring young man. And, pray tell, what did all this have to do with segregation...
...over the laces on my shoes, leaking all over the coach, all running down through the coaches." Reported another: "Cars are allowed to go into service dirty, without water for the public. Passenger trains are normally operated ten to 30 minutes late." Reported a New Haven station agent: "We find now that we board up station windows rather than replace glass. We disregard broken planks in platforms, as there are no planks available for repairs...
Getting Results. Frondizi's plan to force Argentina to live within its means -by removing price subsidies from food, freeing foreign trade, freeing the artificially pegged peso to find its real level-has ended what used to be one of the most comfortable ways of life in the world. With prices rising, beef consumption is down 40%, capital district retail sales 60%, attendance at movies 20%, attendance at soccer games and horse races 25%. Even the rate of marriages has fallen 13% because of higher costs of setting up a household. The need for dollars to buy U.S. capital...
...publisher's warehouse in Milan last fall, Kalamazoo-born Conductor Thomas Schippers discovered an opera score dedicated to Queen Margherita * of Italy and tied up in purple string. In Spoleto last week, at the opening of Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds, he unwrapped his find before a capacity audience. Italian critics promptly hailed the long-forgotten work as one of the finest creations of Composer Gaetano Donizetti...
...climax of an annual four-day festival. While other faiths may frown, the Mormons encourage dancing between couples lest the Devil find other work for them. Each of some 1,400 Mormon chapels holds a dance every Saturday night-including a floor show during intermission to undercut any inclination couples may feel to wander off by themselves. The result is that the Mormons are easily the dancingest denomination...