Word: lots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baby Sitter. In Kansas City, Mo., Harry Rosenthal pulled into a parking lot in his tiny foreign car (a B.M.W. Isetta with its only door across the front), turned the car over to an attendant, came back several hours later to find the man-who had no idea how to put it in reverse-still sitting in the car, its front end snug against the parking-lot wall...
...fiscal troubles of wealthy "Soapy" Williams (Mennen powder, shaving cream, etc.) arose partly because welfare legislation passed at his urging gobbles up a lot of revenue. But the immediate cause of the state's crisis is the recession. With Michigan hard hit by unemployment, especially in automaking Detroit, the 3% state sales tax brought in $43 million less than Soapy had counted on, and at the same time the state had to increase its total outlays for relief...
...know where people get this idea I'm so sinister," says Lehrer. "They have this idea I'm a lot older than I am--that could be the record jacket, of course--or 'He's not at all the way he sounds.' It's not that I'm that raffish. Perfectly nice people joke this...
...that's why I want to quit. Two more years ought to do it as far as singing goes. As for writing and recording, that's another thing--I can do that in my spare time. I'd like to go back to teaching, though. I invested a lot of time in my Ph.D. and I want to finish my thesis. The whole point of this singing is to make up the economic difference between a job in industry and a teaching salary...
...unmistakable terms, Eisenhower lot the American people, the Soviet Union and the world know that the United States has no intention to "try to purchase peace by forsaking two million free people of Berlin...