Word: repairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force needs "six more bases right now, and another 100 as soon as Tommy White can get them." Each, no doubt, complete with schools, TV repair shops, PX's, officers' clubs, noncoms' clubs, hobby shops, etc. It seems to me that every bureau in Washington is using the Sputniks as an excuse for a return to the big spending that, only a year ago, we seemed to have defeated. One good place to start economizing would be to cease building missiles which are almost duplicates of one another...
When the bindery finally suspends operations, University libraries will have to find another place to repair its books. John W. Teele '27, Planning Coordinator, expressed the hope that some firm not connected with the university would purchase the bindery to maintain its services...
Home & Abroad. Sicilian businessmen learned to take full advantage of their country's natural resources. Sicily's position astride shipping routes turned the port of Palermo into the Mediterranean's busiest repair center, with 5,000 new workers. New irrigation and land-reclamation schemes are making agriculture a prime source of foreign exchange, with export sales of processed fruits and vegetables rising from almost nothing in 1946 to $37 million in 1955, some $48 million last year. Much of the new industry is homegrown, but much more comes from foreign businessmen and mainland Italians who know...
...There is an almost antlike scurrying to repair this break in the ordered rhythms of life. Friends and relations bring the offerings of their affection and experience; widowed Mary Follet, though splintering within, turns uncomplaining to her God; her agnostic father rages as man always has against the working of what seems blind chance...
...Kuwait rich husbands and wives may arrive at parties together in their air-conditioned Cadillac, but they separate promptly. The women repair to the haramlik, remove their abas, and spend the evening chatting and sipping soft drinks clad in the latest New York or Paris fashions. The men go off to the salamlik to dine, exchange stories and fret about the price of oil. When the party is over, a servant notifies a woman guest that her husband is ready. She dons her veil and shroud, thanks her hostess and departs without ever seeing her host. But next...