Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking for Loopholes. Despite his "speaks for itself" record and all the attacks it has stirred up against him, Jimmy Hoffa is still cockily confident, brimful of big plans for the future, including an alliance of all land, water and air transport unions...
...Hebgen Dam, 260 other campers and fishermen were trapped in the Madison's canyon, dazed and shaken by a night of terror as the ground shook beneath them. Elsewhere, wide fissures scarred roads and ranches where the main fault, cause of the quake, had dropped parts of the land as much...
...giving the white man his own area and the Bantu his, or having one state in which the Bantu will govern." Verwoerd's solution: a series of separate and remote tribal "Bantustans" that will, under "white guidance," be granted a degree of self-government. The scarcity of available land and the staggering cost of uprooting millions of unwilling Africans from the glitter of the cities give the scheme an aura of unreality...
Welcome nowhere in the Western Hemisphere, ousted Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar chartered a plane in the Dominican Republic one day last week and droned off to exile on the faraway Portuguese island of Madeira, a land full of terraced vineyards and empty of revolutionary ferment. "Too bad." grumped Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, who would like to shoot Batista as a war criminal. "Batista's departure." said U.S. State Department Press Officer Lincoln White, "will contribute to the efforts of the entire American community of nations to restore calm to the Caribbean...
Suffocation. Colorado-born Economist Mather was 39 when he took over in 1954 -the nation's youngest land-grant college president. What he got for the honor was a stepchild institution, utterly straitjacketed by the state's frugal division of personnel and standardization, which controlled teachers and salaries by the same procedures applied to road building. The setup was so suffocating that Phi Beta Kappa refused to charter a Massachusetts University chapter...