Word: formers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likely setting for coldblooded, methodical murder. And the Clutter family seemed the nation's least likely victims. Herb Clutter, 48, a well-heeled wheat-grower, was just about the most prominent man in the region. He was chairman of the Kansas Conference of Farm Organizations and Cooperatives, a former member of the federal Farm Credit Board, a civic leader who headed the building committee that got Garden City's new Methodist Church translated from hope into brick. His wife Bonnie was active in the Methodist Women's Society of Christian Service. The Clutters' well-behaved, teen...
FOOD The First Battle In the up-to-date comfort of a vast glass-and-marble honeycomb on the edge of Rome, the U.N.'s 77-nation Food and Agriculture Organization met last week to talk about hunger. Binay Ranjan Sen, the former Indian diplomat who had just been re-elected FAO's director general, called for a speedup in "the fight against hunger and malnutrition," and touched the world on one of its rawest nerves...
...Press Spokesman Ahmed Boumendjel announced that his "government" was agreeable to negotiations with France "to discuss the conditions and applications" of the self-determination vote that De Gaulle has promised Algeria. The rebels even named their proposed representatives : five rebel officials headed by Mohammed ben Bella, 40, the bemedaled former French army sergeant who was the chief organizer of the Algerian revolt and the man most regarded as the villain by right-wing French settlers in Algeria...
Another problem arises from the difficulty of expansion. To be economically viable and to serve metropolitan Boston effectively, the MTA should construct new lines, perhaps utilizing railroad rights of way. The Authority did expand successfully over the tracks of a former narrow gauge railroad to East Boston and Revere, thus starting subway service to an expanding part of the city. A second major attempt at expansion has not succeeded, however. For $10.6 million, the MTA purchased and renovated completely a branch of the New York Central Railroad, and within two days after service started, the new line carried four times...
...would-be actor since his New York City College days, Cobb sold radios before he got into the old Group Theater, was on his way up, and starred memorably in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, before he was named in a congressional investigation as a former Communist. Cobb publicly denounced Communism, testified about other Red actors, and was given a meaty part in On the Waterfront by Elia Kazan, who had something of Cobb's history. Once again Lee Cobb was on top until a heart attack in 1955. Since then, he has regained his stature...