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Word: followed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the most important consequence would be relocation of the MTA yards and shops which would follow the elimination of most of the surface lines running into Harvard Square and the transfer of terminal facilities to West Cambridge. The University has offered to help pay the cost of relocation if it can acquire the yards for its own expansion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Onward and Downward | 3/11/1959 | See Source »

...Cuban revolution has been remarkable in a way. The wholesale slaughter of Batista adherents which observers feared would follow the fall of the old dictatorship did not materialize. While the "atrocity" trials alarmed many people who could treasure legal procedure in a calmer and less vengeful society, Castro did a reasonable job of adhering to civilized forms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I, The Jury | 3/10/1959 | See Source »

Banda described to his screaming fans the plight of their brothers in Southern Rhodesia, where the whites keep the blacks in their place by a system of pass laws and curfew, and have shown a tendency to follow the apartheid spirit of South Africa. For the Central African Federation, 1960 is looming as the crucial year. Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, a onetime locomotive driver, wants to be on the road toward independence within the British Commonwealth by then. Banda's greatest fear is to see Nyasaland dominated by apartheid-minded whites unrestrained by the more benign rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NYASALAND: Huggermugger Trouble | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...Pulitzer family's Post-Dispatch. The P-D will move bodily out of its smaller quarters (built in 1917, added to in 1941) into the Globe building; the Globe will lease new office space elsewhere. The P-D will print all editions of the Globe on contract, thereby follow the national trend (Chicago, Chattanooga), dictated by rising costs, of using one set of presses to print morning and afternoon papers. The Globe will abandon its Sunday paper, print a Saturday morning weekend edition with Sunday supplements, sell it on Saturday and Sunday for 10? v. 20? for the Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Alliance of Necessity | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...like Adam's apple, Wesley's fig has an unforeseen side effect: it is an aphrodisiac. The late naughty-witted Thorne (Turnabout) Smith might have fashioned some of the priapic victories that follow. Countesses, nurses and simple country girls are figtimized. When the secret gets out, it is an affair of church and state. Charges of scandal and nepotism rock the Vatican. After a sly display of irreverence, Author Menen turns soberside to point an improbably tedious moral: "Scientists are, by and large, up to no good . . . We stand in danger of having our lives twisted, our souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Light & Impolite | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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