Word: returned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series topped off a giant elimination contest involving most of the 4,800 Little Leagues now spreads over much of the world. Monterrey earned its return ticket to Williamsport by whipping teams from Mexico City, Puerto Rico and Venezuela in the Latin American eliminations. Mostly poor kids, many of the Monterrey players worked as bootblacks to supplement the income of their fathers, who work in mills and factories for wages as low as $1.50 a day. But they were fine ballplayers, especially Héctor Epitacio Torres, 12, the skinny (85 Ibs.) star pitcher. Nicknamed Malita (evil little woman) because...
...civil defense system of blast and fallout shelters (see chart), now virtually nonexistent. With reasonable time to evacuate, a complete shelter system might cut the death cost to 3%. Other practical steps, e.g., sheltering mothballed machine tools and moving key industrial plants underground, might help U.S. industry return to normal within a decade...
...formed; 3) decided that delegates from Greece and Turkey would be invited to serve as "advisers" to the British Governor instead of, as originally planned, members of his executive council. Macmillan also promised that "if violence ceases," the exiled Greek Cypriot leader, Archbishop Makarios, would be permitted to return...
...TIME, Aug. 26, 1957), Author Durrell, 46, brilliantly evoked the city of Alexandria, which has festered for 2,000 years between the sun-sparkling Mediterranean and the Egyptian desert. Balthazar covers the same terrain and time span as the first. It is as if the reader were making a return train journey through a landscape he had just crossed-only now he is sitting on the opposite side of the car and everything looks different...
...industrials declining to that level last winter-has been dissolved; it has been reorganized as the "450 Club." But these analysts could be wrong again. "There are hundreds of professional investors and institutions who go down on their knees at night, praying that the market will return to 475 so they can get back in," said Michael S. Thomas, director of research for R. W. Pressprich & Co. "The market is asking for a correction, but on the upside I can see it going through the 520 level to 545, hitting...