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Word: linke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kefauver Committee Report on Organized Crime paints Russian-born Meyer Lansky, 55, as one of the six top U.S. hoodlums: bootlegging, gambling on both coasts, many a link to Murder, Inc. From Batista Lansky got a dream decree for enterprising crapshooters willing to invest abroad. The government waived corporate taxes for ten years, canceled customs' duties on imported gaming equipment. Under certain conditions it offered to back casinos in nightclubs or hotels worth more than $1,000,000. The Minister of Labor, whose brother turned up this year owning a cut of one big new casino, obligingly ruled that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: A Game of Casino | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

Even as patrolmen combed Cambridge in a desperate effort to locate the sex-mad burglar who swept in a figure-eight through the heart of town Friday night, inside sources have revealed that speculation by police officials may link the crimes to a Harvard student...

Author: By The Eye, | Title: Is Cambridge Prowler Harvard Student? | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

Several Harvard professors were quick to debunk any such attempts to link mathematics with symbolism. "It just can't be done," one professor chuckled, "although the fact that he returned to his starting place may be significant. Possibly a longing for the eternal return," he explained, "yes, the eternal return...

Author: By The Eye, | Title: Is Cambridge Prowler Harvard Student? | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...quarter-hour shows and 14 full-hour revues on TV since 1951, Dinah is toiling now at the most ambitious project of her career: 24 live, full-hour color shows for NBC. Her longtime sponsor, Chevrolet, is delighted to pay the $145,000-a-show bill, considers its link with Dinah to be "one of the most enduring love affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Is There Anyone Finah? | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...same time be the gateway to a park and the lakefront symbol of the city. His answer was to keep the main floor open, se that a visitor entering from the upper level, off Lincoln Memorial Drive, can see through to the lake beyond, thus providing a visual link between city and lake. To give the building sweep and drama, he designed soaring, 30-ft. cantilevers for the upper stories, which house meeting rooms and a two-story memorial hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Museum with a View | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

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