Word: railings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castillo Armas is also on guard against a Communist comeback. Last week he deceased the death penalty for sabotage of rail, ship, plane or wire communications-apparently as a broad weapon to head off any attempts at counterrevolution...
...Alfred E. Perlman, 51, was elected to the board of the New York Central Rail road (subject to Interstate Commerce Commission approval), a job he was promised when he became Robert R. Young's hand-picked president after Young's historic proxy-winning fight for control of the road...
Love Is Eternal, by Irving Stone (Doubleday; $3.95), poses a problem: Can a bluegrass belle from Kentucky marry a rude rail splitter from Illinois and find enduring love and happiness in the White House? Author Stone supplies the answers in a 468-page Edgar Guestimate about the love and home life of Abe and Mary...
...Italians struggled upwards. nailing down a rope-rail that stretched every inch of the way. Nights, they crouched in tents, often with half the canvas hanging over the slope for lack of level ground. K-2 gave no quarter, and after many days of heartbreak, they were driven back down to 25,000 feet. There the expedition reorganized, and Desio sent the fittest to try the assault again...
...gratified an impulse "to feel a lion," reported that "he was very handsome"). In the end the audience sees her in the yellow leaf of her eighth decade, as she lives and works now with her second companion, Polly Thompson, in their Connecticut home-drying dishes, following her guide rail for a walk in the fields, choring through the morning mail, touching music in a radio, caught reading a volume in Braille beneath the bedclothes late at night...