Word: hornings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given odds to death and won. Born near the French seaport of Calais, the son of a wealthy and aristocratic family, De Bisschop at 14 ran away from a Jesuit seminary, signed 'on as cabin boy on a sailing ship that beat its way around Cape Horn...
...Macy's opened Garden State Plaza, highlighted by a three-level Bamberger's department store (a Macy's division) and such well-known outlets as A.S. Beck, Grand Union, Horn & Hardart. Sales are at a $40 million yearly pace...
Last week three Boyd youths took direct action. Armed with a shotgun and a .22-cal. pistol, they visited Cockrell's chief sponsor. Mayor Willie Berle Horn, told him: "You get rid of Cockrell, or we will. And you'll be next." Answering a Horn call, Cockrell caught up with the boys in a grove of trees at town's edge, where farmers park their trucks to sell watermelons. There, in a wildly confused tussle, the shooting started. While frightened farmers dived under their trucks, Cockrell fell, shot three times with .22-cal. bullets...
...Still groaning about the "absolute lack of material" for the night's show, Jack suddenly cocks his head to the sound of a car horn and catcalls in front of his home. "The degenerates again," he says softly to a visitor...
Over the rolling hills west of Montana's Big Horn River, 51 huge combines sliced through the golden wheat fields like avenging tanks last week as they raced to set a one-day world record for wheat harvesting. Watching the spectacle from a vantage point overlooking his 65,000-acre farm stood white-thatched Thomas Donald Campbell, 76, the world's biggest wheat farmer, and two astonished guests. The guests: Dmitry Omelyanenko, 48, Vice Minister of Agriculture of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and Mikhail Krylov, 28, an agricultural economist, both members of an eleven-man Russian agricultural...