Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Officials of a British post office in Farnham, Surrey, disclosed that months have passed since their most famous old-age pensioner dropped by to collect his weekly government check (basic pension: $7). Odds were not that Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 71, was forgetful about his stipend. Instead, with his memoirs (TIME, Nov. 3) selling handsomely (some 200,000 copies so far) and his "half pay" as an old soldier, Monty doubtless decided that the trip to the post office is no longer worthwhile: pension checks are reduced in accordance with the pensioner's outside income...
...weeks and months wore by, idled Globe employes took work elsewhere; others struggled along on strike benefits (up to $80 a week). Left without a morning paper, Globe-Democrat readers and advertisers bolted en masse to the Post-Dispatch, which gained better than 60,000 in new circulation during the strike...
...Billings Gazette (circ. 36,002), Butte-Ana-conda Montana Standard (circ. 19,248) and Post (circ. 9,345), Missoula Missoulian (circ. 15,135) and Sentinel (circ. 3,272), Helena Independent-Record (circ. 7,708), Livingston Enterprise (circ...
...Kewanee (Ill.) Star-Courier, Davenport (Iowa) Democrat and Times, Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gazette, Muscatine (Iowa) Journal, Ottumwa (Iowa) Courier, Hannibal (Mo.) Courier-Post, Lincoln (Neb.) Star, LaCrosse (Wis.) Tribune, Madison (Wis.) State Journal...
...Arab countries of the middle east, and cagey about the prospect of accepting Red China's arms, the two Algerians showed themselves students of politics, diplomacy, and intrigue. They were asked the same cautious questions on each campus, questions about the governmental and disciplinary structure of a post-war Algeria; fears about reprisals against the colonials, and about possible Communist influence in the Algerian freedom front. When their own turn came to ask questions, the Algerians showed their awareness of American affairs. They were disturbed mainly by the proviso placed on the National Defense Education Act scholarships; by the paralyzing...