Word: finding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Handicap. In Chicago, police could not find the culprit when Boston Linwood complained that his car had been damaged by a hit-and-run horse...
...Israel in to become a nation. The Israelis, for their part, are willing to take back only a selected few of the refugees. The U.S., which pays 70% of UNRWA's $33 million annual budget, wants the U.N., before UNRWA's mandate runs out in 1960, to find some better solution to one of the world's most intractable and heart-rending problems...
...sort of sick here." Sugarmen talked hopefully about one provision in the law: the newly created National Agrarian Reform Institute can let foreigners own land when "beneficial for the development of the national economy." This loophole may permit the companies to stay on until they can find buyers for the land. But losses will be heavy. The price of sugar land has already dropped by half from a year ago, and shares of the affected companies have lost up to 21 points...
While preparing for the rigors of outer space, the nation's seven Project Mercury Astronauts (TIME, April 20) also familiarized themselves with the hazards of plain water, which they will not find on any lunar expedition but might encounter on their return to earth. The space pioneers, learning how to cope with an impromptu dunking in underwater-survival school at a Navy base in Norfolk: Air Force Captain Leroy G. Cooper Jr., 32, Navy Lieut. Commander Walter M. Schirra Jr., 36, Navy Lieut. Malcolm S. Carpenter, 33, Navy Lieut. Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., 35, Air Force Captain Donald...
...Britain, Virginia-born Lady Astor turned So, practiced some golf shots, fired some verbal salvos to prove that her mind and tongue are keen as ever. On British politics: "I advise Tories to vote Tory. Socialism won't work unless you love your neighbors. I find that so many people don't love their neighbors." On longevity: "Years ago I thought old age would be dreadful because I would not be able to do all the things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do, after...