Word: neared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BLARE of bands and crackling orders shattered the pineland quiet near Colorado Springs. The giant $133 million motel-like complex of aluminum and glass was ready at last. Into the U.S. Air Force Academy marched 1,148 cadets to face a tough, four-year program with the broadest curriculum yet devised for future U.S. military leaders. For news of their first days, their curious customs, and lingo as well, see EDUCATION, Home of the Doolies...
...Gaulle and consider the Place de la Republique their own parade ground, the government took such zealous security measures that the ceremony was robbed of all spontaneity and enthusiasm. More than 4,000 police ringed the square; and only about 10,000 Gaullists with special invitations were permitted near the speakers' platform. Away back, behind an imposing network of steel barricades manned by police and young Gaullist strongmen, were less-favored citizens of Paris-some 70,000 of them...
...supermarket still has drawbacks. Unlike the small shops, the supermarkets do not give credit or make home deliveries. Most Italian housewives cannot afford imported foods, cannot take home much food on a motor scooter, and do not have a refrigerator to store the food at home. Nonetheless, shopkeepers located near supermarkets complain that their business is down a third. Even Communist housewives have ignored the Red complaint that "Rockefeller is strangling the food merchants...
...U.A.W. negotiators heatedly denied that the scattered strikes represented overall union policy. But as they prepared for top-level U.A.W. strategy sessions this week, it was plain a showdown was near. Early predictions had been that Ford would be struck. But last week, with more than two-thirds of the wildcat strikers out at G.M., the pressure had shifted. Best guess on when a strike would be called: around Oct.1, when 1959 Chevrolets should be rolling...
...Allied Stores Corp. opened Bergen Mall near Hackensack, within 40 min. driving time of a New York-New Jersey market with annual income of $2.67 billion. Clustered around a four-story Allied Stern's department store are 39 major shops. Yearly sales of the center are running at about $70 million...