Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...food that pours into Les Halles. The rest is promptly reshipped to the provinces. The villain, as Herber Luethy pointed out trenchantly in France Against Herself (TIME, July 4), is centralization, which in France makes the smallest village council unable to pave a road or fix a school-house roof without the approval of a ministry in Paris, which makes all French roads pivot on Paris like spokes of a wheel, which has discouraged provincial markets and forces produce into Paris to find a buyer. Nearly a third of all France's food funnels into Les Halles. Thus, peaches...
...press on the terrace. What about Nelly? the reporters asked. "I'm too old for politics, war or women," joked 60-year-old Juan Peron. What did he think of Argentina's new president, General Eduardo Lonardi? "Lonardi is like the man who leaped from the roof of a twelve-story building and yelled as he passed the fourth floor, 'I'm doing well...
...designers expect to turn out cars that look lower than present models, but actually will have the same headroom. To enable a motorist to get into a low car without bumping his head on the top, at least one automaker next year will curve the door panels into the roof. Automakers will rely even more heavily on two-and three-tone color combinations to accentuate body lines...
What made Harry crazier than anything was the thought of Stanford White, and what he had done to "Boofuls." He spoke of nothing but revenge, and one night in the cabaret on the roof of the old Madison Square Garden, he walked up to Stanford White's table, whipped out a little gold .22 and fired three bullets into the seducer's face and chest. "I did it," he said in a loud voice as White slumped in death, "because he ruined my wife and then deserted the girl...
Athletic fund drives have consequently been limited to campaigns among alumni of a certain sport for improvements in that sport's facilities; e.g., the effort of the Working Friends of Harvard Hockey to finance a roof for the new rink. Of the H.A.A.'s present 600 thousand dollar endowment, only one half in unrestricted money that can be used in any way the Department sees...