Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Casbah. Hot-tempered students and war veterans ordered a general protest strike. Roaming the city in small commando units, some on motor scooters with girl friends behind, they forced shopkeepers out of stores, stopped buses and trolleys, ordering passengers to descend, poured into post offices, telling employees to quit or be beaten up. Police looked on. The riot fever reached its peak following the burial of Singer Carmen Ramos. Some 1,500 teen-agers started back to town after the ceremony, shouting "Algeria is French!"-"Death to the Assassins!" Joined by other Europeans-gangs of poor Italians and Spaniards from...
ANGEL BERNAL CARBAJAL, 57, is the President's closest friend and a "man with no bite." Like Aleman and Ruiz Cortines, Carbajal is a native of Veracruz and now holds the patronage-heavy post of Interior Minister. A onetime professor of history and Supreme Court justice, he is bald, calm and personable...
...vote of 6 to 1 one day last November, the school board in suburban New Hyde Park, L.I. (pop. 10.500) passed what seemed to be a most innocuous proposal: to post in the classrooms of its elementary schools a version of the Ten Commandments. The version was to be the same as that used in nearby Huntington since 1954. It was so worded as to offend no particular faith, did not involve any religious instruction. But no sooner had the decision been made than the area was in an uproar...
...Filene, 92, also a founder and the dean of U.S. retailers, eased into the new job of honorary chairman. The executive switch means that Fred Lazarus will steadily relinquish more authority to his son, who in 22 years with the company following his graduation from Dartmouth has held every post from sales clerk to basement-store manager. Like his son, chunky Fred Lazarus ("retailing is our life") also worked up from the basement. He became Federated's No. 1 man in 1945, transformed the corporation from a loosely knit cross-ownership of stock to a solid chain and trebled...
Idea Man. In Buffalo, Michael P. Gorman, who was bothered, along with other mail handlers, by exhaust fumes from post-office delivery trucks at a loading platform, won a certificate of merit and $12.50 for his suggested solution: turn off the motors...