Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cemetery in the town of Albiano Magra (pop. 1,500), 60 miles southeast of Genoa, was filled to capacity, and in order to make space the town fathers ordered the construction of a large concrete wall with precut niches to fit average-length coffins. The Socialist-Communist city planners thought they solved the problem neatly, but when some coffins had to be shaved at both ends because their occupants were too long for their resting place, Christian Democrats angrily accused the Marxists of tampering with the dead "just as you trim the budget...
...Odessa. His paper broke out in a rash of loud headlines-NOTHING DEROGATORY ABOUT ESTES GRAIN STORAGE, and POLITICAL HACKS KEEP UP STRUGGLES FOR HEADLINES-the sort of things Billie Sol could show off to friends. A passel of reporters came to town, and Byers almost hollered up a fit: "One concludes that the newspaper hatchet men sent to Pecos are instructed to find and write any fictitious or fabulous story, without regard to its truthfulness . . One cheerful thought is that Pecos will continue growing lovelier with the years, long after the mountebanks and charlatans of the press have departed...
...Senate investigators, five men from the FBI, and four auditors-and twelve more are on the way." In Washington, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations unanimously voted to hold a full-scale investigation of the Estes case, with public hearings to begin as soon as Chairman John McClellan sees fit, probably in June. In addition, a House Government Operations Subcommittee, newly supplied with a special $400,000 appropriation voted by the House, was undertaking its own investigation of Estes' involvements in federal farm programs. Under way in Texas were federal and state grand jury investigations, plus an inquiry...
...Chatô's parental feelings were tied up in his growing press empire and in the men he impulsively picked to manage it. In a fit of rage in the early 1930s, Chatô fired one of his Sao Paulo managers and replaced him with the first person his eye lit on. The chosen one: Office Boy Edmundo Monteiro, who eventually worked his way to control of all of Chatô's companies in Sāo Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina states. A few years later in Rio, Chatô went rowing with a student named...
...movie follows the separate careers of the two men: Jean becomes a hero of the French Resistance while Roger stays on in Germany eventually becoming almost a member of the family he works for. At the war's end they meet again in Paris, where each must fit his former life to his German experience...