Word: folded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mediating between militants who itched to wage a raiding rumble on Teamster turf and a growing number of appeasers ready to welcome Jimmy Hoffa back into the fold, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany offered readmission without "head busting" to Hoffa dissidents who have seen the light. As for Jimmy himself, Meany charged that the Teamster hierarchy was "more than ever under the influence of corrupt elements," would continue excommunicated until Hoffa "does as Saul of Tarsus done-go off into the wilderness for a year and repent...
...Observatory maser has achieved a ten-fold increase in the sensitivity of the telescope, which is used to detect the radio waves emitted by stars and other sources scattered throughout the universe...
...Crimson worked out in the rain yesterday, but for the first time Coach Bruce Munro permitted a few rays of cautious optimism to brighten the gloom. "You've improved a hundred-fold in the last two days." Munro told the highly touted team which until this week had looked disappointing in practice. "Now you're beginning to play soccer...
When the novel appeared in France two years ago, Critic Claude Mauriac, son of Novelist François Mauriac, hailed it as marking "the return of Aragon to the literary fold . . . His non-Communist colleagues-this is to say practically the whole body of French writers-have once again recognized him as one of them-even as a member of the first rank...
...broad variety of merchandise; 3) stores whose owners are basically real estate operators leasing department space to individual merchants who operate under no central buying or pricing policy. Big Discounter Gerald 0. Kaye, chairman of Friendly Frost, estimates that at least eight leased-space stores on Long Island will fold within three years. Says he: "I hate to be a vulture, but I'm just waiting for them to fail. Then I'll pick them...