Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embittered career officers, mostly young colonels exasperated by years of frustration in Indo-China, Morocco, Suez and now Algeria. As for the ordinary Frenchman, he is too busy enjoying his nation's unprecedented prosperity to feel anything more than weary apathy toward politics. Last week saw two new records set in Paris. One was for the number of private cars leaving the city on weekend jaunts into the countryside; the other was for the number of people-44%-who failed to vote in a by-election...
...people who came to the three-day exhibit agreed almost unanimously that they were heartened by what they saw. Sponsor of the exhibit, with the local chapter of the American Cancer Society, was Georgia-born Surgeon Crawford R. Brock, who believes that only utter frankness can break down something even worse than the fear of cancer itself-the fear of a diagnosis of cancer, which keeps too many victims from the doctor until it is too late...
...three liters) giants-the Ferraris, Jags and Aston-Martins. In the swirling confusion, a Ferrari rode right up the rear end of a Jaguar, and both cars spun off the track. A little Stanguellini somersaulted off course and somehow landed right side up. The only serious accident saw General Motors Executive Chester Flynn spin his Ferrari out of an Sturn, tear through a barbed-wire fence and flip over twice. He was taken to a St. Petersburg hospital with a concussion, badly lacerated eye and assorted broken bones...
After a gloomy winter, copper investors thought they saw a few signs of spring. On the New York Stock Exchange last week copper stocks rose in heavy trading. At week's end Kennecott was up 2⅜ to 88⅞, Anaconda up 2½ to 46⅞, Magma 5¼ to 47. Behind the push was a ½? rise to 23½? a Ib. in copper price at custom smelters, which normally supply about 15% of U.S. refined copper. On the London Metal Exchange, where world prices are set and fluctuate with daily sales, copper closed...
Symbols of Liberty. Imperceptibly, the glad grew smaller. On Greek Independence Day, Teacher Durrell found his blackboard shrouded in crape with the message: WE DEMAND OUR FREEDOM ! Among the first symbols of liberty in modern Cyprus were Coca-Cola bottles, with which Author Durrell one day saw his girls pelt the police. During this "operatic phase" of the disturbances, Durrell took the post of press adviser to the governor. He still hoped that neither British hotheads ("Squeeeze the Cyps") nor Cypriot hotheads ("The British must go") would prevail. In retrospect, he believes that had Britain granted the Cypriots the right...