Word: marked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes, then turns to a little weight lifting and to pedaling on his stationary bicycle before breakfast. After that, it is work, work, work on some current real estate deal that invariably produces money, money, money. He has two cars at his disposal (a 1959 white Thunderbird, a Continental Mark III), and in the evenings he sometimes watches movies on the CinemaScope screen in his basement...
...mark of his achievements, in the careful handling of no less than $375 billion, that Washington and the Pentagon hated to see him go. Said New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges: "Wilfred McNeil literally has saved the taxpayers of America billions of dollars. And yet comparatively few people in this country have ever heard of him." Wrote President Eisenhower last week to "Dear Mac": "All Americ?, joins me in saying to you, well done...
Speaking for the Holy Office, Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo agreed that the church must try to recapture the French workers' allegiance (although he noted stiffly that men who received the "sacred and indelible mark of baptism" could not be considered totally "de-Christianized"). But, continued Pizzardo, "it is above all through words that the priest must testify, and not by manual labor accomplished among workers as if he were one of them . . . Work in factories or shops is incompatible with a priest's life and aims." Even if a worker-priest could find time to say Mass and perform...
Milk for Beer. They also made a big play for the housewife, taught so many to bowl that membership in the Woman's International Bowling Congress last year passed the 1,000,000 mark, is expected to increase another 250,000 this year. In many an alley the beer cooler has given way to the bottle warmer. When Cleveland's suburban Northfield Lanes opened last year, it offered housewives three weeks of free bowling, also tossed in lessons, coffee and baby sitting on the house. By following this pattern (often adding closed-circuit TV for mothers to watch...
...collection of poems and articles entitled Noonday 1. It sold an unexciting 10,000 copies. With a bustling campaign of come-on ads and a first printing of 250,000, Avon hopes to do better and tap the rich Zhivago market, now nearing the 1,000,000 mark...