Word: membered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boeing jetliner that set a new speed record. There he dogged the steps of Richard Nixon, was so close at hand so much of the time that at one point in the historic "kitchen summit" at the U.S. exhibition, Nikita Khrushchev swung around, mistook Charlie for an official member of the party, and heartily pumped his hand in fine Nixon-Kefauver fashion. After filing his reports for the cover story in NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Correspondent Mohr cabled somewhat apologetically: "I have had only six hours' sleep in the last 52 and have to knock off for a while...
...general manager. The family firm still employs fewer than 100 workers, but Fritz Mueller has spread its name and fame by being a prodigious civic-affairs man-president of the Grand Rapids Furniture Makers Guild, the local United Hospital Fund, the Chamber of Commerce, and football-boosting member of the governing board of Michigan State University (he holds an honorary M.S.U. doctor of laws degree and a gold-engraved lifetime pass to all M.S.U. athletic events). But neither his conservatism nor his clubbiness prevented him from pulling out of the National Association of Manufacturers when he disagreed with its labor...
...sport's history. Corny Shields spoke of the jib ("Don't trim it flat-you need a nice little cup in it''). He gave a captain's cold advice on picking a crew ("Don't have a light-hearted comedian as a member of a serious racing crew"). He even talked about the weather ("Squalls from the northwest blow longest and hardest...
RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY will continue operation because New York Central, the largest stockholder, reversed a previous decision to withdraw. Broad reorganization plan to change the agency's payment method and improve traffic routing was unanimously approved by 178 member railroads...
Encolpius offends Priapus. god of fertility and lust, and Priapus retaliates by making the buffoon impotent. The anguished lover delivers a severe lecture to his disabled member, but to no effect. Petronius borrows some lines from Vergil to describe the disaster...