Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary Robert B. Anderson, a 43-year-old Texas lawyer, estate manager and Boy Scout worker, appeared to fit these specifications. Last week the Navy got a rude awakening. Bob Anderson, six months in office, moved an admiral out of a top Navy Department job because of "policy differences...
...Abboud spotted another field that would fit nicely with his sugar business: he forced a foreign-owned distillery of industrial alcohol, the only one in Egypt, out of business and set up his own. Other postwar Abboud projects: a $7,400,000, 300,000 tons-a-year nitrate fertilizer plant financed by an Export-Import Bank loan, the first in Egypt, and a half interest in the contracting of a $10 million hydroelectric project on the Nile...
...week's end Eden, leaned out by his illness, but feeling fit (see NEWS IN PICTURES), flew in from his U.S. convalescence to join the Prime Minister at Chequers. For two weeks they would talk it over, before setting out for the Mediterranean. Guessed one Churchill associate: "Winnie might hand over around the time of the annual Tory conference in October. I wouldn't lay you 2 to 1 against...
...disturbed by such distraction. He told his workers where to dig, and three weeks ago one of them hit an ancient tomb a yard below the surface and only 50 ft. from the rumbling rock crusher. More digging uncovered five more tombs-just the right number to fit both the legend and the description of Pausanias. The bones they contained were poorly preserved, but late Mycenaean vases proved that the tombs were of the right period...
Blowtorch. In Oakland. Calif., firemen put out a fierce blaze in the Y.M.C.A. library after Jim Heckle, a carnival fire-eater, was seized with a coughing fit during a performance...