Word: paid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scraps, Stevens has had only one accident-a torn fingernail. Darren (Mike Hammer) McGavin has also had only one accident: a broken rib. Still, the producers prefer the standard technique of organizing camera angles so that stunt men can take over. (The stunt men get paid well; they can afford an occasional puffed lip.) The heroes must survive, pressed, currycombed and unscrambled.' for next week's case...
...hours a day. Homework is often an evening spent proselytizing citizens about Marxism. "Vacation" is an assignment in the coal mines or harvesting crops. While prune-faced female lecturers drone on about the miracles of collectivization, the student "sport" society dutifully digs foxholes and practices with carbines. As paid employees of the state, students have little trouble passing as long as they remain politically reliable. The school must fulfill its "production plan" and turn out so many graduates per year. Every graduate must pledge to work in whatever job the state assigns...
States' Rights. In Carbonear, Newfoundland, the city council turned off water for ten days at the federal post office and customs building because the government had not paid its water bill...
Sell the Cell. In Buffalo, arrested after a noisy quarrel with his wife and a roomer, Melvin Schaffer gladly pleaded guilty to a drunk charge, was forlorn when his wife paid the $10 fine and took him home over his protests that he needed the alternate ten-day jail sentence for a rest...
TREASURY BORROWING costs are still rising. Latest offering of $2 billion in 245-day tax-anticipation bills sold at an average yield to buyers of 4.783%, the highest rate paid on such securities since...