Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though there are over 500 able individuals enrolled in the two leagues, there is actually only a handful for whom the grand army of snobbish rooters has eyes, for whom hats are thrown, bottles broken, hosannas raised...
...42nd parallel has been an on-again-off-again free zone. The motive of President after President was to encourage settlement of the empty, rocky area, once regarded hungrily by land-poor Chile as a possible zone of expansion. The result every time has been smuggling on the grand scale from the free area past the sparsely guarded parallel. Patagonia's population has continued to be mostly sheep (14 million in 1955) and goats...
...portrayed the gallant captain for five years on the nation's TV screens. "I've made more personal appearances as Captain Video since I've been off the show than I ever did on it," says Hodge. "I've been at the opening of every Grand Union supermarket, every doughnut shop around New York in the past six months. How do I lick it? What...
...Norris, resigned his longtime job as president of the International Boxing Club. But he hung on to his job as president of the Madison Square Garden Corp., which owns every share of I.B.C. stock, thus remained the chief target of an antitrust judgment awaiting Supreme Court review and a grand-jury investigation of I.B.C. matchmaking. His successor at I.B.C.: Truman Gibson Jr., a Chicago Negro lawyer who represented ex-Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis...
During a long strike, the bills for Schleppey's services have given some publishers heavy deficits. It took Schleppey several months to break the back of the I.T.U. strike at the Grand Junction (Colo.) Sentinel, and an ex-bookkeeper for the paper recalls: "I used red ink for a long, long time." In the solidly unionized city of Haverhill, the I.T.U. is fighting back by urging subscribers and advertisers to boycott the Gazette; circulation (11,000) is down 45% and ads are down 40% from pre-strike levels. To make matters worse for the Gazette, Publisher William Loeb...