Word: nevers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy will never be successful in its attempt to move the albatross from Midway Island [Oct. 26]. I have helped some of these gooney birds to build their nests, and the aid was accepted gracefully, but the bird selects the site. Once I moved a nest, egg and all, to a new site only three feet distant; the bird was thoroughly confused and went about building a new nest on the original site...
Mature Decision. In Hartford, Conn., after walking into the city hall and for the first time in his life registering to vote, Walter George Davis, 105, explained why he had never done so earlier: "I've had a lot of trouble and sickness and doctors' bills and a big family to raise...
Maternity Leave. In Kansas City, Kans., after vice-squad officers found a half-full pint of bourbon in his beer parlor, Barkeep Floyd Baker was fined $200 for illegal possession of whisky, despite his testimony that he never touched the stuff himself, kept it on hand for his female poodle, who drinks it "just when she is about to become a mother...
Critical Dates. Ike has wanted to visit India, the trip's high spot, for more than two years, but has never been able to take enough time out from Washington duties. Last month he saw his chance: there were three "critical dates"-Dec. 3, the earliest he could get away from preliminary budget chores; Dec. 11, the opening of the U.S. exhibit at the World Agricultural Fair in New Delhi; Dec. 19, the Western summit in Paris. Fortnight ago he sent off letters to India's Premier Nehru and Pakistan's President Ayub accepting longstanding invitations...
...crowded with student teas each Tuesday afternoon, tutor's dinners, Winthrop House galas such as the Christmas party and the spring musical, visiting scholars, and House committee dinners, leaves her only a few days in the month to attend to her old interest, politics. "I find that I can never give to the League of Women Voters a substantial, consecutive amount of time. I spend some hours at the polls now, but I no longer am able to lobby at the State House. Winthrop House and its problems have pretty well taken over...