Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind Duplessis took often, and carried off well, at once political fence mending and approving official inspection of Quebec's industrial progress, which he had earnestly nourished. Boarding a Dakota, he flew north over the bleak vastness of the northern Ungava district to Schefferville (pop. 1,630, an iron-mine company town). Relaxed and joking, the premier and friends toured the great, red-dust-laden, open-pit ore mine. During a break. Duplessis and a companion chatted in an office building. The premier was idly looking out a window when he wheeled unsteadily toward his companion with a wordless...
Most seriously affected were the 13 hospitals in the blacked-out zone. Orderlies from Metropolitan Hospital rushed portable incubators carrying four premature babies 70 blocks downtown to Bellevue Hospital, where they were safely plugged in. Two nurses in Mt. Sinai Hospital kept an iron-lung patient alive by operating the respirator manually...
...testify for the defendants but were refused a hearing by Hungary's hanging judge, Janos Borbaly. Not a word about the trial or execution appeared in Hungarian newspapers, but word leaked out to the Manchester Guardian's Victor Zorza, a Polish exile with excellent contacts behind the Iron Curtain. Why such secrecy, asks Zorza, why this great fear of obscure Pal Kosa even when dead and buried in an unmarked grave? "Could it be because to many in Hungary he is a national hero...
...banned in Russia, the culture commissars take pains to ridicule it as "bourgeois decadency"; concerts are nonexistent and nightclub jazz is discouraged; the importation and sale of U.S. jazz records is taboo. But last week two topflight U.S. Negro jazzmen just back from a month-long trip behind the Iron Curtain had news that the Russians not only know all about U.S. jazz, but play it with fervor whenever Big Brother is not looking. Jazz Pianist Dwike Mitchell, 29, and Bassman Willie Ruff, 28, came home amazed: "They have a real feel for our music...
...Bonn is committed to preserve the jobs of most of West Germany's 306,000 coal miners, fears the power at the polls of the 600,000-member union of coal, iron-ore and potash miners. This makes little sense to German economists, who point out that the booming country has a labor shortage in many other industries, now has only 215,000 unemployed, fewer than ever before...