Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hardly a tomahawk's throw" from the sleekly modern Minneapolis Tribune building, wrote Tribune Reporter Carl Rowan last week, thousands of Indian families huddle in "the dark, squalid, bug-infested dwellings that fit society's idea of what an Indian wants or deserves." Flocking out of barren, overpopulated reservations in hope of finding work in the cities, reported Rowan, they soon "drift into a world of dark hopelessness." In Minneapolis, so-called "City of Hope," there are 8,000 Indians, but few employers will hire them. Jammed into rickety tenements and Skid Row hovels, said Rowan, most...
This month, when Britain gives the Gold Coast its independence, and it becomes the Commonwealth nation of Ghana, workmen hope to begin turning Weese's design into reality. What he has created is original without being bizarre, dignified without being conventional, functional without being depressing, and it should fit into the landscape as if it were homegrown...
...grab 'em. Of course, we'd prefer that she not use a toothpick, but beyond that she's his problem, not ours." Most corporations hope for some social relationships among executives, but do not try to forge them by selecting wives to fit into a pattern. "I doubt very much," says Mrs. George Romney, wife of the president of American Motors, "if anything very important is ever accomplished at parties...
...m.p.h. trials at the Air Force's research track on Hurricane Mesa, Utah that the device will go into production before its test cycle is complete, probably by midyear. Lockheed's flying seat has many advantages over the capsule cockpit: it is light, simple, cheap and can fit many aircraft now in service...
...elected expressed little resentment over the appointments. Sakowitz said that he hoped the group could meet on the Biviera, "if Lamont saw fit...