Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bronx Zoo ("the best thing New York City has"). "I heard there was a riot at the gate," said Zoo Director James Oliver. "I rushed right out and there he was." Castro fed elephants, gorillas and orangutans, ate a hot dog and an ice-cream cone, vaulted a rail, and to the horror of the guards, reached into a cage and patted a Bengal tiger. "They don't do anything," he said...
...weeks in the doldrums, the stock market came to life last week, pushed into uncharted territory. The Dow-Jones industrials clipped through the old high of 614.69, climbed 18 points for the week to a new record of 624.06. Reflecting week-by-week increase in car-loadings and higher rail earnings, the Dow-Jones railroads climbed to a new 1959 high of 168.92, up 5.81 for the week, and highest since 1956. What encouraged Wall Street about the advance was that the market leadership came from such old-line blue chips as American Telephone & Telegraph and International Business Machines, which...
...government ruled the strike illegal. Cops raided union headquarters and broke up riots at rail terminals with tear gas and clubs, arrested union members on sight, including Vallejo and all his top lieutenants. The government charged that Vallejo is a Communist (he claims to have quit the party in 1946) and had plotted the strike with the second secretary and military attaché of the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. The government booted the two Russians out of the country...
...with a couple of cronies in a pub, and suddenly all Dublin floods onstage to sing that he's a Daarlin' Man, and hoist him on its shoulders. The intimate numbers are best. An Agnes de Mille solo, powerfully danced by Juno's doomed son (Tommy Rail), makes a poignant moment out of the life-destroying blight of Ireland's "Troubles." Two lovers' laments, One Kind Word and For Love, affectingly sung by Loren Driscoll and Monte Amundsen, highlight a Marc Blitzstein score that is more thoughtful than tuneful. Stars Douglas and Booth have...
...intense, rail-thin man with a bush of a mustache and thick-framed spectacles-a man society columnists joshed as Brazil's "worst dressed of 1958"-last week became front runner for the presidency in 1960. His name Janio Quadros...