Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soda Pop & Slocks. "The poor working class no longer exists in England today," says Donald Tyerman, editor of London's Economist. The so-called proletariat that was the bulwark of socialism and Communism is giving way to an immensely enlarged middle class, intent on acquiring all the trappings of affluence. One excellent measure is autos. U.S. Businessman Arthur Watson, boss of IBM World Trade Corp., found the change astounding. Eleven years ago the manager of IBM's big plant at Essonnes, France asked Watson for permission to build a shed to house the workers' bicycles; two years...
...Mississippi. But Schoolboy Perry Lee, closely convoyed by Coach Vaught, was heading for Room 1137 of the King Edward Hotel in Jackson, where Mayor Watkins and Perry Lee's father were waiting. There, at 12:05 amon the morning of Dec. 7, Perry Lee signed his "letter of intent" to play for Mississippi...
...nation's TV football fans spent the afternoon frantically flicking from the Colts-Forty-Niners game on CBS to NBC, where undefeated Syracuse, intent on disproving the taunt that it had played only so-so opposition, was busy wrecking a U.C.L.A. team that had upended high ranking Southern California two weeks earlier. The game was never even close. Syracuse's "Sizable Seven" linemen (average weight: 216 lbs.) scornfully brushed aside U.C.L.A.'s specially designed trap plays, held U.C.L.A.'s offense to a humiliating minus 13 yds. on the ground. Led by German-born Team Captain Gerhard...
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Nov. 30--With Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev an intent listener, Janos Kadar declared today that Soviet troops are staying in Hungary...
...occupation knocked into limbo the oppressive remnants of autocracy and feudalism that had saddled Japan for centuries. And up from the ashes rose a new Japanese architecture that is attempting to blend modern technology with traditional Japanese needs and feeling for structure. Best of this new generation intent on making "something new of tradition" is Kenzo Tange, 46, who stands today at the crossroads where Japanese tradition and contemporary architecture meet...