Word: needing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johannesburg native caught on the streets without a pass in June, for then is when Transvaal farmers direly need black labor to help harvest the maize. If he is lucky, the African will simply be arrested, taken to court and charged $3 for his "crime." But if he does not know the ropes, he will be held for the labor bureaus, where as an alternative to prosecution he gets a chance to sign a "voluntary" farmwork contract...
...Beach Matron Gregg Sherwood Dodge, 35, fifth wife of freewheeling Auto Heir Horace Dodge Jr., announced that she has raised $2.5 million in cash and pledges for "Girls' Town, U.S.A.," a haven to be built in southern Florida for "lost, frightened, abandoned girls from ten to 18 who need care and help." Gregg, a onetime chorus girl accused of adult delinquency in the past (charges of drunken driving, resisting arrest, slugging cops), made it clear that her nonsectarian, non-profit project is no transient whim. Said she soberly: "It would help to correct the alarming rate of violence...
Though chemists are eagerly seeking a synthetic that will have the advantages but not the feminizing disadvantages of the natural estrogen, Drs. Marmorston and Kuzma see no need to wait for this millennium. They feel much good can be done with the currently available estrogens (marketed under different names by a dozen U.S. drug companies). Even on prescription, the low-dosage tablets should not cost more than a nickel...
...classes graduated on the same day. By so doing, all newly commissioned officers (630 Navy, 446 Army, 331 Air Force, 79 Coast Guard) started seniority at the same time. Reason: growing armed forces unification and the need for an equalizer when officers of different services meet in unified jobs...
Sick? The Douglas humor more often than not is of the "sick" variety-or, as a colleague put it, "his jokes need Blue Cross." One chapter is called "India, or Put the Cobra Back in the Basket, Mother -There'll Be No Show Tonight." Another begins: "Early this morning, somewhere in between my orange juice and my No. 1 concubine, I got to thinking about Toynbee Doob . . . He had an extra pinkie on each hand. When Toynbee drank tea he was the politest bastard in the county...