Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loom sessions with the McClellan committee, plus a federal trial on charges of having illegal recording devices attached to telephones in his Detroit headquarters. After Hoffa's acquittal last week, a gloomy committee staffer ventured that a forthcoming investigation of teamster links with New York labor racketeers might lead to new charges against Jimmy. "But don't bet on it," the staffer warned. "Don't ever bet on anything again...
...hung by Front Runner Jungwirth's shoulder before blasting by the slim, blond Czech. Back in the pack, Delany frantically started a last-lap kick that started the crowd bellowing with delight. Delany sailed toward the front, but Ibbotson streaked across the line 10 yds. in the lead. His time: 3:57.2, smashing the old 3:58 world record set by Australia's John Landy in 1954. In the first four-man finish under four minutes, Delany was clocked at 3:58.8, Jungwirth at 3:59.1 and England's Ken Wood...
...wildly unpredictable street fight for the National League lead, the Milwaukee Braves were last week's gang to beat. After a shaky start the Braves' pitching staff was beginning to live up to preseason expectations, and from second base old (34) ex-Giant Red Schoendienst was spreading his old pro's confidence to the whole team. But the man mainly responsible for the Braves' surge into first place was a lithe Negro outfielder named Hank Aaron, who is hitting the baseball better and more often than any man in the National League...
EXPORTS TO RED CHINA from Japan are expected to double by 1959. Following lead of Britain, West Germany and other West European nations, Japan lifted strategic embargo on 272 items, including trucks, cars, electric motors, lathes and railroad equipment...
...distress which is as old as the world itself." A new relationship develops in which Rene finds that Ilouhi can "have the same sort of dreams as a white woman," but in the ef fort to share her thoughts and influence her mind he finds that she is "slowly lead ing me back to primitive ideas and in stincts." Fascinated but also scared, the Frenchman writes : "No European woman had ever played the same part in my life." Another Age. The distinguishing qual ity of French colonialism was its lack of racial prejudice. But the war in Indo-China already...