Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...philanthropist holds court in the coffee shop of the Baker Hotel, where he has lived since his wife died in 1939. Fellow townsmen are allowed to stop and chat if a hovering nurse nods to them, are offered Robert Burns Panatelas at audience's end. The cigars must be smoked immediately; E. J. Baker likes his gifts to be used...
...NATO line, has siphoned off 2½ for the fighting in Algeria. Far from being apologetic. French Chief of Staff General Paul Ely last week demanded that NATO commit itself to the defense of all French territories in Africa. "Upon pain of death," declared General Ely, NATO must develop a "peripheral strategy" to prevent the U.S.S.R. from subverting Africa and thereby turning NATO's Mediterranean flank...
Cooling off, Fredericus Witte wrote a reasoned letter of protest. "I consider it very disturbing," he began, and at that point the Inspector of Direct Taxation, First Section, must have decided to read the sentence again: "I consider it very disturbing if I am not required to pay more. If I pay too little, somebody else suffers for it. That's dishonest." According to Witte's calculations, the tax collector had listed Witte's total income 247 guilders ($64.96) less than it should be, thereby reducing Witte's tax by 42 guilders ($11.05). Witte wanted...
...Tokyo laws now permit only twelve-story buildings, which must have special earthquake-proof foundations...
...along the major highways. Burnt-out cars and buses studded the roads, and Santiago, capital of Oriente, was virtually cut off. To make his point clear, Castro got on the rebel radio and warned: "The orders to the people for Nov. 3 are: Do not go outside. The people must show their rejection of the elections by remaining at home...