Word: inded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...luck has dogged the sports career of U.S. Army Private Willie J. Williams, 24, a powerful Negro from Gary, Ind. At the University of Illinois he wanted to be a football star in the worst way, but during a preseason drill in his junior year he broke a leg and never played football again. Later he won a fistful of Big Ten sprint championships, was leadoff man on the 400-meter relay team that set a Pan American record in Mexico in 1955. But when the Army shipped him to Los Angeles to try for the Olympic team...
Died. The Most Rev. John Francis Noll, 81, Roman Catholic archbishop of Fort Wayne, Ind., founder (1912) of the weekly Our Sunday Visitor (circ. 762,-353), one of the founders of Hollywood's Legion of Decency; in Fort Wayne...
CHARLES E. FOLEY New Harmony, Ind...
...Studebaker the bait was equally tempting: $35 million in cash from Curtiss, enough to keep the company in business. Curtiss will buy all Studebaker's defense inventories (mostly jet engine parts), take a twelve-year lease on two plants at Utica, Mich, and South Bend, Ind. In addition, Studebaker's bank credit (it has already borrowed $29.8 million) will be raised to $45 million, thus giving it a total of $50 million for immediate needs...
...neither labor nor management seemed to be particularly bothered or bitter. Strikers waved their signs only when news photographers whooped them on, spent most of their tours on the picket line playing ball, shooting craps, or gazing at television sets plugged into management's power outlets. In Gary, Ind., pickets used an air-conditioned, seven-seat mobile toilet lent them by U.S. Steel. An Inland Steel official called the situation "a comic opera." Said a U.S. Steel executive: "It's just as if they'd all been let out of school...