Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists ran a poor fourth in Djakarta. This time, trading on Sukarno's almost mystic hold over the Indonesian masses, the Reds increased their vote from 96,000 to 135,000, ran second only to the powerful Masjumi (Moslem) Party. Said Surabaya's widely-read Dwaja Post: "This is a bitter lesson in peaceful co-existence...
...KGGM said they would no longer pay for the space, the papers-the Albuquerque Journal and evening Tribune, the Santa Fe New Mexican-dropped their listings. The TV stations countered by showering Albuquerque (pop. 175,500) with 165,000 free program logs, while the far-roving Denver Post snatched at local circulation by adding Albuquerque programs to its daily TV log. "These television stations are asking for the moon," protested the New Mexican's Managing Editor Joe Lawler. Invoking lunar logic himself, Lawler added: "If we list their programs as a service to readers, what's to stop...
...newsman, the full-time local TV critic, who on many papers matches judgments daily with such syndicated TV pundits as the Herald Tribune's John Crosby, the New York Times's Jack Gould, Hearst's Jack O'Brian-and often comes out ahead. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Bill Jahn, who runs monthly popularity polls that frequently draw more than 1,000 returns, tagged Jack (Dragnet) Webb and Lawrence ("Champagne Music") Welk as coming stars months before they received national recognition. The Los Angeles Mirror News Columnist Hal Humphrey's previews and criticism have...
POSTAL WORKERS' WAGES will not go up in near future, although House Post Office and Civil Service Committee okayed $546 yearly raise for about 500,000 postmen. Measure stands scant chance in budget-whacking Congress, but even if it passes, President Eisenhower will veto...
Died. Nobile Giacomo de Martino, 89, veteran Italian diplomat, who served as post-World War I Ambassador to Berlin, London, Tokyo and the U.S. (1925-32); in Rome. His forceful protest against a personal attack on Mussolini by Major General Smedley D. Butler, U.S.M.C. (who accused II Duce of running over a child, called him a "hit-and-run driver") resulted in an apology from Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson...