Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stockly came to TIME with the background of a pilot, a cab driver and a steel -mill -worker -turned -reporter who was fired by a newspaper editor with the warning: "You're a fine legman, but you'll never be a good writer as long as you live...
After Princeton, Stockly took on odd jobs, including a stint in a steel-mill, while pestering Pittsburgh newspapers to hire him. Finally, the Sun-Telegraph agreed to give him a job if he would work a trial month without salary. Stockly agreed, and after a month he was on the payroll at $30 a week. Eleven months later, he was off the payroll with the editor's prediction that he would never become a writer...
...Duplessis, the latest McCormick power project, a $15 million, 90,000-h.p. hydroelectric plant on Quebec's north shore of the St. Lawrence. Built by the colonel's Manicouagan Power Co. and dominated by McCormick Dam, the plant will supply reserve power for McCormick's paper mill in nearby Baie Comeau...
...Alami has encountered only a handful of boys who do not fit in. Most thrive on their new life. Last week, with the offer of a $149,000 grant from the Ford Foundation, Alami was bubbling with expansion plans. Among them: bigger & better carpentry and tailoring shops, a flour mill, dairy farm or macaroni factory to sell products to surrounding villages. Says "Uncle" Musa: "I've never had a family. Now I have the most wonderful family a man could ask for." His hope: a Boystown big enough for a family...
Stupid Party" was what John Stuart Mill called the conservatives a century ago. It stuck...