Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sought to snuff out Berlin's liberty. By their refusal to panic, their stouthearted willingness to risk economic hardship rather than accept subjection, Berliners have won the world's admiration. Today, in the tower of Berlin's City Hall, hangs the "Freedom Bell"-a copy of Philadelphia's Liberty Bell, given to Berlin by the people...
...After a year of barnstorming with the Harlem Globetrotters, towering (7 ft. 2 in.) Wilt ("the Stilt") Chamberlain,22, two-time All-America at the University of Kansas (1957, 1958), signed a one-year contract with the Philadelphia Warriors of the National Basketball Association. His salary-more than $30,000-makes Chamberlain the highest-paid player in N.B.A. history...
...Like their counterparts in Boston, Philadelphia, Buffalo and St. Louis. Pay scales are still lower in the South, range higher in Cleveland, Los Angeles and Minneapolis-St. Paul, to a peak in San Francisco...
...Baseball Results NATIONAL LEAGUE San Francisco 6 Los Angeles 1 Philadelphia 6 Milwaukee 0 Milwaukee 8 Philadelphia 3 St. Louis 7 Chicago 3 Pittsburgh 2 Cincinnati 1 Pittsburgh 5 Cincinnati...
...April 22, 1958, the Philadelphia Inquirer headlined, "Harvard Aide Held in $20,000 Bail as Red Purjurer." The aide was Zborowski, who, according to the authorities, was for 25 years "a trusted Soviet secret police agent whose reports were read personally by Stalin." When Kenneth Robertson asked for the "essential facts surrounding the case of Comrade Zborowski," Pusey replied only that he had been "appointed last Spring by the President and Fellows." Robertson wrote back as follows...