Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peking has a cardinal, Thomas Tien, now in exile at Techny, Ill. (Cardinal Tien came to the U.S. in 1951 for treatment of a heart ailment, and this was felt by some Vatican critics to have broken the tradition that a prince of the church must remain at his post in time of danger...
...Kansas playmates took a stunning 39-37 beating from Iowa State, Kansas Basketball Coach Dick Harp went into seclusion with a set of chessmen to work out the right moves for the return match. When the Iowa Cyclones came back to Kansas, Chessman Chamberlain slipped out from his post position under the basket, pulled three Iowa defensemen to the foul line with him, gave his teammates room to drive in for scores. While "Wilt the Stilt" settled for only four field goals, Kansas won 75-64, all but took possession of the Big Seven title and probably earned back...
...time expropriating the treasures of Shchukin and other wealthy collectors, pooled them to form Moscow's famed Museum of Modern Western Art. Used as tourist bait for years, the museum was closed during World War II by Stalin, who liked his artists regimented and realist. Only in the post-Stalin years have the paintings begun to reappear in Leningrad's Hermitage and Moscow's Pushkin Museums...
...grip last week of an oil-production shortage that kept it from shipping enough oil to Europe and reduced domestic reserves to dangerously low levels. On its post-Suez promise to deliver 500,000 bbls. of crude oil daily to Europe, the U.S. has thus far made good on an average of less than 300,000 bbls. daily. To make the situation worse, much of the oil has come from U.S. reserve stocks, which have dropped from 284 million bbls. to 254 million bbls. since the beginning of November, and are now below the minimum set by the Interior Department...
...Green River, hampered by inexperienced management and inadequate equipment, was hard hit by the post-Korea steel dip, ran up an overburdening debt of $16 million. For two years creditors tried to marry off Green River with 20 other companies. Nobody wanted Green River...