Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Needing pars on the last two holes to win, the pressure finally cracked Los Angeles' tiny (5 ft. 5 in., 134 Ibs.) Jerry Barber, 43, who bogeyed both, lost the Professional Golfers' Association title by a single stroke to Palo Alto's burly Bob Rosburg, 32, who finished with a blazing 66 for a total of 277 at the Minneapolis Golf Club...
...Driving his own Porsche sports car in a preliminary to the German Grand Prix, France's Jean Behra, screeched into a banked turn at no m.p.h., lost control on the rain-slick track, was killed when his car spun over the embankment...
...centuries Leptis Magna was a lost, buried city. Founded by far-ranging Phoenician traders, it was a great port in Carthaginian times. Later it was allied to Rome, but the city fathers made the mistake of siding with Pompey against Julius Caesar. For this the city was fined 300,000 measures of oil annually. Later still it became the home town of a Roman emperor, Septimius Severus, who made it one of the grandest and wealthiest cities of the empire. Nubian slaves, lions for the Roman arenas, ivory and African gold flowed through Leptis Magna into the civilized world, until...
...also learned that the eight men had joined the International Typographical Union. They were all fired. Last week, in a tough yet tongue-in-cheek decision, a National Labor Relations Board trial examiner ruled that union organizing, not sex, was responsible for the firings, ordered the men reimbursed with lost pay. He also read Boss Santangelo a lecture of his own on factory life...
...turning a losing team into a winning one." Charlie Thomas shared the captain's relief. When he took over as president and chief executive officer of TWA just a year ago, the line was flying low and slow; it had operated without a president for six months, had lost close to $12 million. Last week TWA was back to cruising altitude, thanks not only to Thomas but to the astonishing success of its jets and the upsurge in all air traffic...