Word: oure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The government built tent camps at army bases all over town, filled Havana University with cots, bedded down 122 lucky guajiros in the presidential palace's Hall of Mirrors. Merely by flashing their identification cards, issued before they left home, the guajiros got free food, shirts, laundry, bus rides...
To 30,000 Hasidim, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum. leader of Brooklyn's famed Williamsburg Hasidic community, is "king of all rabbis, holiest of all Jews, greatest benefactor of our generation." Last week, the aging (73), frail, militantly anti-Zionist rabbi was in the Holy Land, rousing new support for his...
With the major steel companies about to weigh in with more record earnings, Adams was not the only steelman who felt slightly uncomfortable at announcing record profits in the middle of a strike for higher wages. Said an officer of U.S. Steel, the industry's leader: "Our earnings are...
Hard-pressed U.S. railroads figure their featherbedding bill at $500 million a year. In 1958, calculates the Interstate Commerce Commission, rail crews worked only 57% of the hours for which they were paid. Each diesel engine must carry a fireman as a holdover from the days of steam locomotives-though...
For ten years, one of the more arresting sights of Minneapolis has been burly Professor Athelstan F. (for Frederick) Spilhaus, 47, dean of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology, tossing his huge head at cocktail parties and spouting fantastic scientific ideas faster than water flows over Minnehaha...