Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like old times for two waifs of the political storms. Expatriate Songstress Josephine ("The U.S. is not a free country") Baker, with a basketful of orchids slung over her shoulder, warbled I'm Looking for an Old Friend. When she spotted one in Charlie ("I have been the object of lies and propaganda") Chaplin, she just had to dash over to his table and give him a great big kiss...
...Iroquois game of baggataway was a brutal pastime with one main object: to get the braves toughened up for the warpath. Squaws standing on the sidelines with switches whipped any laggards into mauling activity. Nowadays, with a few genteel refinements such as padded gloves and helmets, the Iroquois' old game is known as lacrosse...
...Cabinet emphasized that it did not object to Hastie on personal grounds, but disapproved of breaking long PBH precedent of non-sectarianism...
...owners of the Hazebrouck distillery in northern France. Yet their vats were guarded by special police, surrounded by high walls, and there seemed no opportunity for theft. Was there a leak? The Hazebrouck distillers drained off their largest vat. Peering into the darkness, workmen spied a small, shining object and uncovered the end of a metal tube. The tube led them under the distillery walls, 100 yds. along a ditch, across a meadow, into a garage on the national highway."Mon Dieu! What a scheme!" said an admiring Frenchman. "You just turn a spigot and the liquor gushes out!" Arrested...
Into the Blue. A second plane race is scheduled by CBS and NBC when the ceremonies at Westminster Abbey are ended. The object in this race will be to get on the air in the U.S. with the first text and picture roundup of the coronation. NBC has chartered a Pan American DC-6 which it hopes will fly nonstop from London to Boston in nine hours, carrying Commentator Henry Cassidy...