Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arson on the Rocks. In Apleton, Austria, Volunteer Fireman Friedrich Preiner admitted setting fire to 26 houses because alcoholic drinks are "always distributed free to the fire brigade at the scene...
...native land by the Communist clique of muralists headed by David Siqueiros and the late Diego Rivera. As a result, he leads the life of a wandering expatriate, painted this week's cover in Paris. He recently finished another Paris commission-a mural depicting Prometheus bringing heavenly fire to men, in the newly opened UNESCO headquarters-and reproduced this week in color...
...Under fire from the panel of Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School, Jeffrey E. Butler of Oxford University, and Oscar Handlin, professor of History, DuPlessis replied that outsiders are incapable of realizing the uniqueness of South Africa's dilemma...
According to native Maori legend, an ancient chief named Ngatoro-i-rangi got caught in a mountain blizzard near Waira-kei and had the presence of mind to call for divine help. Down from the Maoris' ancestral (and warmer) homeland, Ha-waiki, came the fire goddess. Wherever she stepped, a volcano bloomed. She warmed Ngatoro-i-rangi so bounteously that the whole region where the blizzard was blowing is still boiling over...
...abroad will cut its business to between $70 and $80 million this year, with profits of about $20 million after taxes. Nor can the second highly successful wing of Hughes' empire, Hughes Aircraft Co., help much. Though it does some $500 million worth of business annually making electronic fire-control and missile systems, its profits, like those of most defense contractors, rarely top 3% of the gross...