Word: pal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cruise down Burma's Irrawaddy River. This week, both the Burmese Army and the R.A.F. having confessed failure in massive teddy bear hunts, someone in the royal family was bound to be shopping for a Christmas replacement for the furry creature that had been Alexandra's pillow pal since childhood...
John Edwards, 17, had never before played hooky, but "on impulse" one day last week, the senior at Manhasset (N.Y.) High School slipped off with a pal to the U.N. building in Manhattan. There they got in line, bought tickets for a guided tour, and then-pow! A platoon of officials hauled the boys out of line, flashbulbs popped, and Hooky Player Edwards got jarring news: his tour ticket was the 1,000,000th sold this year...
...wholesome as sunshine, resists this metamorphosis, and Italy's Chiari, though he clowns likably in his U.S. debut, acts as if the throb in his heart has gone to his head. There is more bricklayer than boudoir in his voice. As the hero's pal, Comic Jules Munshin is as frisky as a seal at feeding time, and the dialogue he gets is just as fishy ("How did she take it?" "Lying down"). Maybe Old Vienna should be given back to the National Geographic...
...leave Teamster Local 405 and join an independent union. The NLRB has not certified the result because of a challenge to six ballots, but rebel leaders are confident that the vote will stand. > In Chicago, where cab drivers and mechanics recently voted out a Hoffa pal, Hoodlum Joey Glimco, and his Teamster Local 777 as their bargaining agent in favor of a new independent union (TIME, July 28), two other Teamster locals are on the verge of revolt...
From the start, Ulbricht was a brassy enemy of the intellectuals who had captured control of the party in the early 19205. Ulbricht's pal was a Russian courier who had direct contact with Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin in Moscow. Soon Pravda was sniping at the "nonproletarian enemies of the working class in the German party," and soon Ulbricht's enemies were purged. It was time for a major party overhaul; tough, conscientious Walter Ulbricht got the job. Comrade Ulbricht took on the name Genosse Zelle (Comrade Cell), began atomizing the easygoing Communist cliques into tight little cells...