Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Borne north by car and plane, by skier and foot racer, the Olympic torch this week will travel from Rome to the famed ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Dolomites. Its arrival will open the seventh Winter Olympics. Even before they began, the games seemed headed for trouble...
...from the Utah Welfare Department said, unless the Blacks would sign an agreement to 1) give up polygamy and 2) raise the children according to the law, i.e., teach them that polygamy is wrong in the eyes of the state. Thus the state is trying-without having to resort to lengthy and costly court action-to persuade the Blacks and their like-minded neighbors to give up plural marriage. But Vera Black would not be persuaded. In a steady voice, she read a statement to the officials: "Ours is a nation of equal rights before the law. Why should...
...that a gold-and silver mining company named "Al Serena Mines" may have used fraudulent mineral assays to obtain the timbering and mineral rights on mining claims in Oregon. The suspected fraud should surprise few people, for it is no great revelation that private interests seeking public resources often resort to doctoring their documents and bribing officials to gain their loot. Astonishment should spring, rather, from the discovery that mining assays should have any bearing on timbering rights at all. The linkage of timbering and mineral rights dates to the nineteenth century, when lumber was worth little, yet was essential...
...Lorgneur the result was a slight wrinkling of the surface in the upper righthand sky. But Watteau had good reason for haste. Suffering from tuberculosis, he was always in failing health. Once, asked about the future, he replied: "Isn't the hospital the last resort? There, no one is refused admission." Instead it was in a country house outside Paris, where he hoped the fresh air would cure him, that Watteau died...
...nutritious. The minerals which are infiltrating a broken pipe lying somewhere under the intersection of Plympton and Mill streets, are making the water unappetizingly murky, and, worse, it has slowed down to a feeble trickle. Leverett students are advised that there will be no permanent need to resort to bottled liquids for water will be taken temporarily from a different pipe until this one can be repaired. This may however, take several days. At present, despite much open air bureaucracy, engineers are trying to determine the exact location of the break, while workmen continually dig. The search is complicated...