Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Free Press was founded in 1947 after I.T.U. printers lost a contract battle with Colorado Springs' evening Gazette Telegraph (25,417), owned by hidebound Raymond Cyrus Hoiles (TIME, July 15), whose radically right-wing views fall just short of anarchy. Since last October Editor-Publisher Edward J. Byrne has fired 42 of 117 staffers (including five printers), Byrne warned last week that the paper is still in the red, will be folded if it is not in the black...
...None of the girls. Dr. Greenwald found, had much sense of reality. Even those with creative ability had such a short attention span that they could not stick at their avocations; the rest had difficulty watching a TV program through, or reading for more than a few minutes...
...bounced along, his head bobbing, his spikes scratching splinters in his peculiar, pecking stride. Then, rounding into the final quarter, he threw his head up in surprise. Rozsy had sprinted past him, was kicking downhill into the short straightaway. Puzzled, Ron turned it on. It seemed a little early for the final sprint, but if that was the way it had to be-well, Ron knew what to do. He lengthened his own stride, won by twelve lengthening yards...
...happened so fast that Ron ran the last quarter in 56.4, was clocked for the mile in 4:03.7, just one-tenth second short of the indoor record. It was obvious that even if the Hungarian gets around to running up another record for himself, The Delany will probably be pounding home in front of that race...
...electric engines was out of service. Unlike the engines on other lines, the Pennsy's GG1 locomotives have air-intake screens of imported French linen that blocked out heavy flakes but could not keep out the fine, windblown crystals. Sifting into the electrical system, the snow melted and short-circuited everything. Mechanics had to remove every water-soaked unit, dry it by hand. Said one Pennsy executive: "We were prepared for cornflakes, but we got hit by talcum powder...