Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began to wonder what had got into him. John, a good-looking, 18-year-old son of a hardworking Chicago court bailiff, came to M.I.T. with just about all the honors that Chicago's Lane Technical High School could heap on him: a place on the super-honor roll, divisional presidency of the student council, a cadet colonel's rank in R.O.T.C., and-finally-the American Legion's coveted high-school award for the class of '56. But for some reason John was falling far behind his M.I.T. classmates...
...resolution, sponsored by the U.S. and 19 other powers, contained the harshest language the U.N. had ever used toward one of its members. Yet, when the roll was called, not a single nation outside the Iron Curtain joined Russia in opposing...
Break, Haggle & Roll. In Cincinnati, Used-Car Dealer Don Melch touted 17 cars, got rid of five in one day after he advertised...
...twice reminded the delegates that he did not want the money, but carefully added: "It's only a penny a man per year." After three votes -by voice, show of hands, finally by standing-McDonald declared the motion "carried by an overwhelming vote." He refused permission for a roll-call vote, and delegates went home grumbling that the meeting was packed with union staff members who had no right to vote...
CHRYSLER PRODUCTION slump is worrying dealers, who complain that they cannot get enough cars to meet big demand, that Plymouth station-wagon delivery has not even begun. Dealers ordered 350,000 Chrysler cars in first month after introduction of new models, but Chrysler will roll out only 252,000 autos by January. Reason: strikes and production trouble because Chrysler rushed complete redesign of all models in 20 months v. normal lead time of three years...