Word: likelies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under a 1947 agreement, long denounced as unfair by Filipinos, the U.S. had acquired gg-year leases on 23 Philippine bases, and the U.S. Navy was running the town of Olongapo (pop. 60,000) almost like a unit of its own Pacific Fleet (TIME, July 20). Under the new terms negotiated by Bohlen and Filipino Foreign Secretary Felixberto Serrano, the U.S. has now agreed...
...People who moved out of neighborhoods to escape Puerto Ricans and have to pay much larger rents are inclined to blame their difficulty on the Puerto Ricans who moved in. People who have to stay although they would like to move out blame their distress on the Puerto Ricans, the scapegoat...
...Yorkers had an old tradition, something like a tribal practice, I suppose," says he, "of blaming their recurrent ills on the latest strangers to populate the slums. The Irish and the Germans, the Italians and the Jews have now become respectable, but it looks as if the Puerto Ricans will enable the old tradition to survive...
...Exactly what happened when CBS Interviewer Charles Collingwood came up and saw Mae in her Hollywood apartment? One of the droller exchanges came when he commented on all the mirrors in Mae's plushy bedroom. "They're for personal observation," said Mae, deadpan. "I always like to know how I'm doing." Sensing that the going was getting a bit hot, Collingwood suggested that they switch the subject to foreign affairs. Said Mae: "I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs...
...truck. Top challenger Willi Lehner, 36, a 230-lb. stonemason from Unterpeissen-berg, was fond of hanging suspended by his finger from the claw of a derrick. Dressed in their holiday leather knickers and green felt hats, the wrestlers wound their legs around steel stools (wooden chairs would snap like toothpicks), and at the umpire's command "Auf!" tried to pull their opponent's hand across a line drawn a foot from the center of the oak table. During minute-long deadlocks, noses began to bleed from the strain...