Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls kept at it doggedly, returned to Europe in 1957 to learn more. Slowly, they began to win events in minor meets. Penny got a job as an interpreter with an Austrian ski manufacturer; Betsy became a fashion model for a German sportswear shop. Penny, a husky, 140-lb. blonde, excels in the downhill; Betsy, whose brown hair is streaked with silver strands to accord with the current vogue for fashion models, is smaller and more nimble, does best in the slalom. They have modeled themselves on the style of Austrian men ("Only the boys have the drive and aggressiveness...
...night last week all was quiet in Ribadelago. In the tavern men were playing cards. At the church Father Plácido Esteban-Gonzalez had just arrived on his motor scooter from the provincial capital of Zamora. An electrician named Rey was working late in his shop. Shortly after midnight the lights in the village flickered out. At the tavern, irritated cardplayers lit candles, went on with their game. Suddenly, a distant, muffled roar was heard. To woodcutters in the mountains, it sounded like a "great stampede." To one villager, the noise resembled "a continuous dynamite blast." Father Placido went...
Cheers, Promises. By the time Castro reached the outskirts of Havana, every factory and shop was closed, and the streets, balconies and rooftops were packed with a clapping, shouting crowd. Marmon-Herrington tanks cleared a path for Castro's Jeep. Rebels with outthrust rifles finally forced the way through the throngs to the palace, where Castro got a warm abrazo from his hand-picked President, Manuel Urrutia. "I never did like this palace," Castro told the crowd, "and I know you do not either, but maybe the new government will change our feel ings." Later, at Camp Columbia, where...
Suppose that ex-president Batista, foreseeing the events that were to come, had provided himself with a relatively impregnable fortress on some small island off the Cuban coast. Suppose again that, when the pot finally boiled over, he had fled to this island, set up shop and declared that his and only his government represented his people...
...Music Shop (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Conductor Buddy Bregman introduces the country's top recording artists...