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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college classrooms, looser requirements on certain classes of FHA loans. In sum, the bill carried an "inflationary" total of $2.2 billion spending obligations telescoped into two years, which, the President wrote, would "drive private credit from areas where it is urgently needed," and damage an industry now abuilding at near record levels...
...Near the town of Lugazi, in the Buganda section of Uganda, an African husband got home from a beer party one night recently to find his wife of 22 years entertaining three men. A fight broke out, and the husband was killed. As the guilty foursome wondered how to dispose of the corpse, a simple solution occurred to them...
...Those Long Knockers." What makes the feats even more impressive is Griffith Stadium's pasturelike outfield. There are no near fences to invite Chinese home runs; leftfield is 350 ft. away, centerfield 401 ft., rightfield 320 ft. Faced with this expanse-and a considerable lack of talent-Washington's late owner, Clark ("The Old Fox") Griffith, relied on bunts, slap-singles and speed on the base paths. Legend has it that Griffith watered the infield to slow bunts to an unplayable dawdle, even slanted first base downhill to benefit his sprinters. One vestige of Griffith's parsimonious...
...Lord of the Universe-Jagannath, one of the names of Vishnu, the Preserver. After many hardships, it was miraculously revealed to him that Jagannath would come to him as a log of wood, and soon thereafter a huge log with strange markings appeared, floating in the Bay of Bengal near the city of Puri. The king ordered his carpenters to carve an image from it, but their chisels broke. At last the Lord Vishnu himself appeared, disguised as an old carpenter, and the king agreed to let him try his skill with the great log alone in a locked room...
Prior to the dedication and opening performance, local citizens prominent in the arts, business and industry attended a formal dinner at the Museum of Science. They then proceeded by boats up the Charles River to a specially constructed dock near the new theatre. During the 35-minute ride, expensive cigars, small bottles of brandy, and coffee were distributed. On disembarkation the riders were met by bright lights and a barrage of television cameras. And during the first intermission of Twelfth Night, a fireworks display was set off over the River...