Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rates a chauffeur-driven Cadillac, but, to set a budgetary example, he turned it down. The Hugheses used to show up at the "must" parties in a hired limousine (at $20 a night), but abandoned that custom after the limousine broke down on the way to pick them up for a White House dinner for Queen Mother Elizabeth; they skinned in just as the band broke into Hail to the Chief. Now they drive everywhere in their Ford Victoria, and some legitimate government expense eats its way into their own stern personal budget. (Hughes took a 75% salary...
...week's end the Legion regained control. They rounded up groups of rioters who had built roadblocks and had scattered rocks on the highways, and made them clear the roads. "We not only make them pick up rocks," said a British brigadier, "but make them carry the rocks half a mile. It works wonders." Heavy government censorship was lifted, and King Hussein thanked the Legion in a broadcast for restoring order, adding: "During the crisis we have identified faces and intentions which do not have the good of the country at heart." First reports said 18 had been killed...
Contacted in Washington, Malia commented, "The chief asset of this exchange is that the Russian libraries are now ready to send us complete files of all their reading matter. We can now pick out whatever we want and it will be sent...
...Football League ignored the Crimson and most Ivy League teams in their draft of college seniors. Earlier this week of the 360 chosen, only three were from teams that faced the Crimson: Phil Tarasovic of Yale, choice 101, Bill DeGraaf of Cornell, choice 324, and Royce Flippin of Princeton, pick 334. Bill Meigs commented that while he was not called, he had received a long questionnaire this fall but had shown no great enthusiasm for it. He believed that his light weight had contributed to his neglect by the pros...
Traffic rolls in constant cacophony through gullylike streets between stolid Victorian houses of commerce. In the great harbor, junks with patched sails pick their way among British and U.S. warships, freighters and tankers of a score or more of flags. From the Peak, the British name for the range of hills on Hong Kong Island, houses of the rich and the merely prosperous give grace to a prospect that leads many a world traveler to argue that Hong Kong surpasses Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, or San Francisco as the world's most beautiful seaport. Beneath the Peak stand perhaps...