Word: salts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brought in to reform Montana State Prison at Deer Lodge after political appointees had mismanaged their way into a riot in 1957 and a sit-down strike in 1958, able Warden Floyd E. Powell, 46, gave convicts a break. He put salt, pepper, mustard and catchup on the mess-hall tables, instituted TV-watching hours, worked hard to shape up the grim, turreted brick buildings built...
Jews are commemorating Passover with chanted prayers and symbolic foods-the bitter herbs, the salt, the unleavened bread. But on one high mountain, near Jerusalem, another people keep their Passover just as the Lord commanded Moses in the Book of Exodus, with the blood of lambs "without blemish" which are eaten in haste, loins girded for the sudden flight. These are the Samaritans...
...Indian in Salt Lake City or Ogden is lost, friendless" and generally out of a job, according to the report. The same is true of the Mexican-American, and the extent of mistreatment of the Negro in employment, restaurant and hotel service, higher education, housing, "is almost impossible to ascertain...
Also elected were Andrew L. Griffin, of Kirkland House and Portland, Ore., English; Julius B. Levine, of Winthrop House and Waterville, Me., Economics; Stephen Lichtenbaum, of Eliot House and Brooklyn, N.Y., Mathematics; Charles W. Maynes Jr. of Adams House and Salt Lake City, Utah, History; and Edward B. Segel, of Adams House and Everett, History...
George's father went broke five times, ended up as a builder in Salt Lake City. From the age of twelve, George worked to help support the family, still found time in high school to play football, basketball and baseball. There he met one of the few people ever to make him speechless: a stunning brunette named Lenore Lafount. Even for parents used to the mysterious fixations of adolescence, George was a caution. He decided that Lenore was the girl he was going to marry; just as he later could not understand why people hesitated to buy Ramblers...