Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that instant, a green Rambler also bound for Beirut rounded the turn. In it. were Fayet Esrouer and his pregnant wife, their five-year-old daughter and three relatives. The father was rushing his wife from Beit Méri to a hospital in Beirut, to give birth to her fifth child. Hearing the honking ministerial caravan and the siren of its motorcycle escort, Esrouer excitedly decided to pass the disabled Ford before pulling over to let the motorcade pass him. On the hilltop the confused assassin reached for the plunger a trifle too soon...
Kerala's Communist Chief Minister E. M. S. Namboodiripad cried out-as had Khrushchev at the time of the Hungarian revolt-that the strikers and students were being misled by agents provocateurs. The Communist weekly tabloid Blitz haltingly explained away police bru tality in Kerala by claiming that the police were "trained in a tradition of unbridled repression, of which Communists were the main target during the former feudal rule," and had not got over their old ways. The Central Secretariat of the Communist Party issued a 1,200-word resolution which concluded that the shooting down...
...pound tables and raise hell to get things done," says Link. "When the directors say tomorrow, I tell them I'm camping right here until you get going." When he was hired, he told Petrobrás brass: "I'm a capitalist and a strict believer in private enterprise. But leave me alone and I'll do the job." Link still feels that private foreign oil companies are needed in Brazil. "The more people you have looking for oil the better," he says...
...Walter Alston unnerved by photos that showed him hanging in effigy near the hocks of a San Pedro, Calif, gas station's flying red horse? "I'm more worried about winning today's game," said the Dodger manager, still running on half a tank of sporting cliches. "You do the best you can, and it's useless to worry about it. It's not so nice to lose as to win, but you have to learn to take...
...m Gonna Win." To beat the muscular Kuznetsov, Rafe Johnson had to better his best, since only ten weeks ago Kuznetsov had scored 8,013-28 points better than Johnson's own world-record 7,985. The Russians shortened the interval between events from half an hour to 20 minutes, but it bothered Rafe not a bit. "I like the interval even shorter," he said, "only about five or ten minutes to catch my breath." With the event half over...