Word: les
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mulvana, Kans., harassed by friends who wanted to know about his visit to Fort Sill, Okla., Aircraft Worker Les Jennings distributed a mimeographed report: "I saw (and touched) one of the new atomic guns. It is....and has a ...., which does not but....if it is so desired. It.... eighs and 13 oz., without...
...underworld that lies behind the lovely façade of Paris, a new population has moved in on the oldtime apache. In the argot they are les Bicots, but respectable Parisians call them les Algériens. After 1946, when the people of Algeria were granted full French citizenship, they began pouring into France at the rate of 30,000 a year. Arriving in Paris on the slow trains from the Midi, they drift with their bundles into the old, revolutionary districts of Belleville and Ménilmontant, where whole blocks now have the sound and smell of Algerian medinas...
Among this population, against whom a strong racial prejudice is developing in France, the French Communist Party has found violent adherents. Last week les communistes Algériens turned the last hours of Bastille Day, traditionally a gay but tranquil celebration into a riot...
...come to France? Simply because they cannot feed themselves and their families in Algeria." Said Paris-Presse: "We must take care of them on a social scale, unless we want to take care of them on a criminal scale later." While the newspapers discussed improved housing and job training, les Bicots drew back into the old, dark, protective alleyways of Paris...
...mile trip to Sun Valley, the cars averaged 44.7 m.p.h., racked up an average 22 miles per gallon. The big winner, for the fourth year in a row: Ford Motor Co., whose Ford Mainline Six, driven by Les Viland of the Ford engineering department, averaged 56.7 "ton miles" per gallon (weight of car and passengers in tons, multiplied by mileage, and divided by gallons of gas consumed). On the basis of actual miles per gallon (27.03), the Mainline Six was second to a four-cylinder Henry J "Corsair" (28.25). In third place was Studebaker's six-cylinder Champion, with...