Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Popular Opinion. The north coast Nicaro mines, source of 11 % of the free world's nickel, are out of production: last week government bombers, aiming for the rebels, instead hit Nicaro warehouses containing $500,000 worth of machinery. The sugar crop. Cuba's economic lifeblood. 75% of which comes from rebel-saturated Oriente. Camagüey and Las Villas provinces, is largely in Castro's hands, as the January harvest approaches...
Inverted Ship. Eero Saarinen's hockey stadium at Yale cost nearly twice the original budget of $750,000 and is worth every nickel. It stands like an inverted Viking ship with a concrete arch for its keel. The vast ceiling of weathered planks sags slightly, tent fashion, from the central spine. From outside, the stadium looks as strange as a beached sea tortoise. Inside, its wide-open spaciousness, wintry light, and effect of weightlessness are exhilarating. The nation's foremost young architect, who has created such modern wonders as the General Motors Technical Center (TIME, July...
...blue Alfred University beanie on his head while 2,000 students cheered. In Wellsville he solemnly accepted 50? campaign contributions from two shy Brownie scouts. In Olean he let ward bosses wait while he strode into W. T. Grant's to shake more hands and buy a nickel's worth of green taffy. In Salamanca he grabbed a baton and directed the high school band, grabbed a hula hoop and, with a flourish, tossed it around his neck...
Poverty left one mark on Charlie that the years have not erased: he has a nickel-nursing streak in him, even now that he rakes in a great many nickels. When he decided to donate a bridge trophy in his name several years ago, he bought an ancient horse-racing cup, had the old inscription chiseled off to make...
Among the dedicated men who set out for speed behind the steering wheel of an automobile, the Bonneville hot-rodders are a class apart. They are amateurs with professional skills, willing to spend months -and every spare nickel-to create from standard parts a car so far improved over ordinary hot-rods that it can be opened up only at Bonneville. The drivers race not against each other but against the clock, on solitary, screaming runs through the timing traps on the ninemile, arrow-straight course. "These men aren't a bunch of scatterbrained kids like the hot-rodders...