Word: leys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Fred T. Ley, 86, president of Fred T. Ley & Co., Manhattan real estate management firm, builder of the 1,046-ft., 77-story Chrysler Building, world's second tallest skyscraper; in Manhattan...
...unnecessary or even bad." Later, when Congress, piqued by anti-U.S. riots in Puerto Rico, briefly considered an independence bill that would have pushed the island outside U.S. tariff walls, Muñoz had switched his views so much that he likened the bill to the Latin American ley de fuga-the custom of freeing a prisoner and shooting him in the back "while he escapes...
...finding his way around outer space, German-born Missileman Willy Ley got out of orbit on the New Jersey seaside. Invited to address a dental society meeting in Atlantic City, Scientist Ley arrived four hours late, explained that he had circled for an hour in Asbury Park (65 miles away) before being set on course...
...gave the narrowest possible meaning to the Supreme Court's Watkins decision: Miller, while before a House Un-American Activities subcommittee, had not protested the pertinence of a question about Communist writers he had known. ¶The National Association of Attorneys General, holding a convention in Sun Val ley, Idaho, beat down attempts to criticize the Supreme Court by resolution, but only after the association's president. New Hampshire's Attorney General Louis Wyman (whose anti-subversive activities had just been rebuked by the Supreme Court in the case of sometime University of New Hampshire Lecturer Paul...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). The Magic Flute, with Amara Hur ley, Sullivan, Uppman, Hines...