Word: herds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about $2,000,000 from his grandparents (on his mother's side), but dutifully went into father's business. He sampled cheese-eating four to seven pounds a day. He could tell by how a cheese tasted and felt what part of the country and even what herd of cows it came from. But his heart was not in his work; he preferred champagne. "I got to taking time off," he recalled last week. "Three days, then a week, then two. I just wasn't on the job. Daddy said I'd have to behave...
...CGIL, the giant Communist-run labor federation. Neither Mussolini nor the Nazis were able to stamp out all the Red cells at the Fiat works. At World War II's end the Communist leaders in Turin emerged as resistance heroes, began throwing their weight around like a trampling herd of elephants. Year after year they elected an overwhelming majority of the Fiat shop stewards. Management even put in a Communist as personnel manager. U.S. military men were horrified at such Communist-union dominion in plants which, among many other things, assembled Sabre jets. Fiat's boss, Vittorio Valetta...
...novel (first published in LIFE) that neither whines nor rails nor waves flags, but sticks tersely to its theme. Its hero, Commander George Krause, U.S.N., is indeed a good shepherd. His flock is a convoy of 37 merchant ships zigzagging across the Atlantic in 1942. To herd them safely to harbor in England, Krause has only four escort vessels, one of which he personally commands. Almost as serious as his weakness in ships is his own inexperience; this is his first taste of war, although he is an Annapolis man with 20 years of routine duty behind him. The serious...
...much for history. By way of entertainment, the picture offers Esther poised in classical scanties by the side of a lotus pool. And in case Esther isn't enough, there is a herd of elephants painted blue, green, yellow, lavender and gamboge...
...Crimson sophomore Ben Heckscher, not as consistent as usual, was extended to five games before beating Bob Herd. Captain Bill Wister, playing number two, won his third straight match, using forceful volleying and solid ground-strokes to take Don MacDougall without dropping a game...