Word: hills
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oxon Hill...
Early Life: Born April 10, 1906 in Philadelphia's blue-blooded Germantown, son of a millionaire attorney-banker-industrialist who became president of the University of Pennsylvania (1930-44). Prepped at Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill Academy; majored in English at Penn ('28), played basketball, managed the football team, made Phi Beta Kappa...
...passed, we should have all of our contracts end on a given date. We can call a primary strike all across the nation that will straighten out the employers once and for all." Hoffa's outrageous threat brought outraged reactions in the press and on Capitol Hill. Taken aback for once, Hoffa loudly denied that he had ever made such a statement. But no one was so stupid as to believe his denial. He had, in fact, made the statement into a microphone wired to a tape recorder, and there it all was, in Hoffa's voice...
...bird and hopped like a frog. The kangaroo was real, nevertheless, and also real (probably or possibly) are other strange animals that have been seen only rarely by civilized man. This is the conviction of French-born Bernard Heuvelmans, and his book, On the Track of Unknown Animals (Hill & Wang; $6.95), makes fine reading for people who like to hear that new things can still be found without a spaceship...
...prestigious organizations of law-abiding citizens-notably the New York Academy of Medicine-have urged adoption of the British system, Judge Murtagh has no hope that anything so revolutionary would be accepted in the U.S. In Who Live in Shadow, written with Sara Harris and published this week (McGraw-Hill; $4.50), Murtagh offers a compromise prescription: ¶ Set up facilities under federal auspices for treating narcotics addicts in all major cities...