Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy was planning to head back this fall to his Cincinnati home to pick up the valuable stock options that soapmaking Procter & Gamble is holding...
...students enter the state examination room, called by the school's Director Helen Bocharni-kova "the most terrifying place in Moscow," and dance for the choreographers of all Russia's major ballet theaters. They are then farmed out according to their ability, with the Bolshoi getting first pick of the crop...
Last week's Washington hearings showed how a small but powerful union can sandbag management. Ostracized by the other newspaper unions, the New York Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union (4,500 members) controls a vital link in the chain of distribution: its drivers pick up bundled papers at the loading docks, truck them to the city's 16,000 newsstands and to certain distribution points in the city and the suburbs. From this strategic position, as testimony last week revealed, the hoods who front for the haulers exacted more than half a million dollars in tribute-probably...
...Ontario four years ago fresh from Ohio's Antioch College: "I was a complete stranger, carrying expensive luggage, who bore all too much resemblance to a run-of-the-mill college boy." Bowman soon developed "calluses over blisters," managed not to look "too slack alongside experienced and hardened pick-and-shovel...
...wide-awake and on the scene for the doubles, however, as he and Tom Freiberg won that title, defeating the pick-up Crimson team of Fred Vinton and Bill Wood in the final. Yale nearly had to default this one, too, as Freiberg, viewing the singles from atop the M.I.T. tennis shack, had difficulty getting down from his perch for the doubles. He finally made it, though, and the match went...