Word: rebuilders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disarrayed Traffic. But all that is in the past. A shy and scholarly man, Hirohito is happier dissecting shellfish than chatting with workers. The seven top court chamberlains found it relatively easy to rebuild the Chrysanthemum Curtain that has traditionally walled off the Emperor from his subjects. When, occasionally, Hirohito grew restive at the silken bonds, the chamberlains were ready with smooth explanations. Did the Emperor wish to browse in a Tokyo bookstore? They warned that "such a visit would put the booksellers to great expense and trouble, and would also disarray traffic." Did he wish to visit a sick...
Born on a remote farm, merry-eyed Teacher Mejia was 13 when she took over a rural classroom at a $3-a-month salary. At 16 she became a Roman Catholic nun, later went to Mexico for five years to help rebuild revolution-ruined villages. Then her father killed a man in self-defense, and she left her order. In despair, she found a new cause: devoting her life, energy and knowledge to teaching and off-hours building in Colombia's wild Caldas department...
...Steel's Chairman Roger M. Blough summed up the industry's confidence for 1960 by announcing that his company will maintain an operating rate of between 90% and 95% of capacity during the first quarter, with only slight declines for the second and third quarters as users rebuild their inventories...
...Englishman's castle extends at least to his curb. But housewives agreed it made their Christmas shopping the easiest in years. By last week Marples was taking measures to give him more direct control over traffic police and to build vast garages under Hyde Park, increase traffic fines, rebuild roads. Most of his proposals, though shocking to the British, are old remedies in the U.S. But he had a few touches of his own, including buying World War II surplus Bailey bridges from the War Office to throw across congested road crossings...