Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Podola himself was called to give evidence, he still had traces of a black eye, but he looked calm, perfectly at ease, rather detached. In guttural tones, he answered questions as if the answers bore no relation to his own fate. "Do you know," asked Prosecuting Counsel Maxwell Turner, leaning forward with heavy jowls jutting out, "what is the punishment for capital murder in England?" Replied Podola indifferently: "They told me in prison. Either you get off or"-he let his hand swing down from the elbow-"it will be hanging." And never once was Podola trapped into...
...beef up the party in rural areas. Since offers of good jobs, high salaries, and softer living had not succeeded in winning new rural members, Gomulka decreed that Communist workers who commute from villages to town factories would have their memberships transferred to the village party list to give a "psychological boost" to scattered country members and make others "less hesitant" to join...
...self-government plus exemption from Federal income taxes. He fears that statehood would be fatal both to the Hispanic culture he prizes and to Operation Bootstrap, an industrialization program fostered by tax abatement. But with the entry of Alaska and Hawaii into the Union, Muñoz had to give way to growing statehood sentiment, some of it within his own Popular Democratic Party...
...threw his support behind a new idea: a proposal to Congress that when per-capita income in Puerto Rico equals that of the poorest state (Mississippi's $1,053 v. Puerto Rico's $480), Congress will consider Puerto Rico's tax structure and give the islanders a chance to vote on their "basic terms of association" with...
Rounding out their first full week as man and diva, Aristotle Onassis and Maria Callas stayed quietly on the Onassis superyacht, anchored off the Greek coast, until the soprano decided she was having a "sentimental crisis." Off she flew on Onassis' lumbering DC-4 to give a concert in Bilbao, Spain. Sang Callas: "Unexpected things have happened, and the only remedy is to rise above them." To the disappointment of her Spanish audience, she barely managed to rise above middle C, moved one critic to write: "The Bilbao public demonstrated perfect manners in not showing greater disgust." Then...