Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fairly large chamber 1,000 ft. beneath the surface. Leading off from the chamber was a shaft measuring 2½ by 1½ ft. A young Oxford student, Neil Moss, 20, led the way but after a few moments' descent, his alarmed cry came back: "I'm stuck! I can't budge an inch...
...only cementing factor," says Opposition Leader Dr. N. M. Perera, a handsome, sleepy-eyed Trotskyite,* "is the mutual dread of an election." By gently shifting his influence, Banda alternately encourages and hampers Gunawardena in his proposals for land reform and rural cooperatives; little has been done to fulfill election promises of nationalizing tea and rubber plantations, or of turning Ceylon into a model Socialist country...
...Pentagon had nothing at all to tell the clamoring press. Characteristically, Murray Snyder, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (TIME, March 2), had warned a few top scientists to give only innocuous answers to newsmen. But the cry for information grew so loud that at 12:35 a-m Snyder belatedly issued a four-paragraph bare-bones story, which erroneously stated that the tests occurred in late September. Complained Chairman John Moss of the House Subcommittee on Government Information: "This appears to be another example of the Pentagon attempting to manage the news, and once again Murray Snyder...
...stocks and Canadian real estate. Still he wants more. Recently he tried to merge Universal with Underwood Corp., got a cool reception and retreated. What makes Lou Chesler run? Answers Chesler: "I just cannot resist the challenge of an obvious business opportunity. Though this may sound corny, I'm also interested in deals like General Development that may do people some good in human terms." Then he grins: "Of course, I may go broke. But I don't think I will...
...Albert M. Greenfield, 71, resigned as chairman of Bankers Securities Corp. ($500 million annual sales from department stores, hotels, real estate and taxi-cabs), which he founded 31 years...