Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bull" Connor is a big voice in Birmingham, where a smelter economy, stamped onto Alabama's rural culture, makes a melting pot of raw men as well as raw metals. Birmingham, settled six years after the Civil War, is no repository of genteel Southern tradition and or moderation, has been keyed to violence, whether labor troubles in the 1930s or desegregation in the 1950s. And Birmingham's white country people, teeming in from piney woods to steel mills, view desegregation less as an abstract threat to be fended off by lawyers than as a specific, bread-and-butter...
...bursting seas were cold-40°-and the air above the water was even colder. The men huddled together, breathed warmth onto each other's bodies. Fleming directed Mays and Strzelecki to hold on to each other as he put his arm around Meredith, scantily dressed and near freezing. Fleming kept telling...
...offer, and the kid's record contract alone was worth $40,000. So Elvis Presley stayed with Colonel Tom Parker back there in the fall of 1955 (RCA Victor got the record contract), and all Agent Seat could do was to try to latch onto a suitable substitute. He promptly chased down to Memphis after some cornball named Harold Jenkins...
HARDLY anyone anywhere celebrates Christmas more impressively-or does retailers more good-than the U.S. businessman. He empties a sackful of gifts on expectant customers, fellow executives, public officials, newspaper editors and anyone else who creeps onto his list. The list has grown so long that today the Santas-in-pin-stripes spend something like $1 billion on yuletide cheer: $300 million for liquor, the rest for a stockingful of loot ranging from $2.50 puddings to $2,500 pianos. The giving is not necessarily due to an excess of Christmas spirit; businessmen simply think that they must. As Denver Radio...
REVLON-SCHICK MERGER is close. Schick Boss Kenneth C. Gifford quit; he and members of Schick family sold controlling block of about 242,000 shares (market value: almost $4,000,000) to Revlon. Onto...