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...Rebot, played by five-man teams. Four of the players carry yoko-garbi chisteras, the fifth serves with his bare hand, then straps on a stiff leather glove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bounding Basques | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...street cleaners union demanded that Deputy Mayor Joseph Zell, 63, apologize or make good his boast that he could sweep the marketplace faster than the regulars, the Mayor grabbed a twig broom, cleared one-third of the area in a fraction of the time it normally took the usual five-man team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

Practical Considerations. The five-man FPC, which has spent two years listening to the arguments, emphasized practical considerations behind its unanimous decision. The high, multipurpose federal dam would have provided more power and slightly more flood protection than Idaho Power's dams. (Neither project provides for irrigation, and differences in navigational and recreation benefits are negligible.) However, the huge public project would have cost far more: $388 million, v. the $176 million Idaho Power will spend. Concluded FPC: the costs of public power in relation to investment would "have no clear economic advantage over the three-dam plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Decision on the Snake | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...present form by the breadmaking industry-the single biggest wheat user. The rest would have to be upgraded by blending it with strong-gluten wheat.* But there is comparatively little strong-gluten wheat available with which to do the blending. Said Nebraska Wheat Farmer Herb Hughes, member of a five-man board that advises Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson on the operations of the Commodity Credit Corp.: the breadmaking quality of the Government's stockpile is "fantastic and deplorable." This week Secretary Benson was scheduled to go to Hutchinson, Kans. for a conference with some 5,000 farmers, millers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Plenty of Nothing | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...sets up, every freshman living in the Yard will find the seventeenth issue of the mimeographed Yardling has been tossed at his door the night before. But for the rest of the year '58 will have to depend on extra-Yard sources for news, because the freshman newspaper's five-man board of editors, bowing to final exams, lack of personnel, and tradition, will publish no more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Newspaper Will Undergo 5th Annual Spring Death Tomorrow | 4/29/1955 | See Source »

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