Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tudeh Party. In 1946, Ali was liaison man in Teheran for the short-lived Azerbaijan Soviet republic. Knowing all this, Colonel Sepahpur was suddenly curious to know the contents of Ali's worn suitcase. The colonel grabbed and hefted it. "This suitcase seems very heavy for a sick man to carry," the colonel grunted...
...most popular sports, sponsors such activities as skiing and square dances, and has a $1,000,000 employee recreation hall with twelve bowling alleys and a low-cost, open-air cafeteria (typical three-course lunch: 78?). Recently, an employees' committee asked for additional benefits, including pensions and sick leave. The company explained that its present program, which costs 56? per hour per employee, was all that it could afford. When it offered to substitute the new benefits for some that the workers already enjoyed, the employees decided that they did not want to give up anything...
...more and more companies are coming around to the view that pampering pays. In the traditionally low-paying insurance business, which pioneered in pensions and sick benefits, some new frills are being added. In Houston the Prudential Insurance Co. of America two years ago put up a $9,000,000 building with a swimming pool, outdoor lounge and free-lunch cafeteria. The company now has a waiting list for clerical help. Says Prudential Vice President Charles Fleetwood: "This building is one of the biggest bargains we ever...
Tennant snapped: "I'm sick and tired of being followed!" A news blackout followed. Across the moat of privacy, reporters had Slim pickings: The only tidings that drifted out from the inner sanctum: a picnic had been called off because of rain-and U.S. Crooner Eddie Fisher had sent the princess a special recording of Happy Birthday...
...Surfside, Fla. home. He soon saw that it was not the life for him. Says he: "There's only so much gin rummy you can play, so many times you can lie on the beach, so many times you can go to the races. Then you get damned sick and tired of it, and wish you had a job to go to." Last May Sayre found the job to go to at Borg-Warner...