Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Question, an account of French army torture in Algeria, sold 65,000 copies, stirred up a storm of public indignation before the government banned it. Last week Paris police seized another shocker. La Gangrène, 24 hours after it rolled off the presses. Even so, thay were too late again...
Misfire. In late May they moved on Khartoum once again, with four scout cars, lights dimmed, leading three companies in full battle dress. But this time their coup misfired. A motor-pool major refused to lend his trucks to the cause. Sensing defeat, Moheiddin at 2 a.m. left Khartoum hoping to turn back the advancing troops, but could not find them. By then, news of the plot had gotten out. Easygoing General Abboud had had enough, arrested 18 officers...
...Take-Off. At the bell in Yankee Stadium last week, the jug-eared, roundheaded Johansson pawed tentatively with a left jab, kept his right cocked to launch the big punch. He did not seem too heavily muscled, but the tip-off of his power came late in the first round when he threw his very first right hand. Though it was a glancing blow, the 182-lb. Patterson blinked...
Ever since the late Charles M. Schwab took over Bethlehem Steel in 1905 and set about making it the nation's No. 2 steelmaker (after U.S. Steel), the company has prospered by paying the fattest executive bonuses of any U.S. corporation. Last year Bethlehem's President Arthur Homer received $100,000 in salary, plus $411,249 in bonus, making him the highest-paid U.S. corporate executive. For years many Bethlehem vice presidents have been paid more than presidents of larger companies. Last week Homer and the 19 other Bethlehem executives who share in the company's lush...
Street of Shame (Japanese). A study of prostitution in Japan, made by the late Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu) in a mood that merges Dickens and documentary...