Word: signs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Star-Crossed. In Philadelphia, fired from his city job for a long string of absences and tardiness, J. Howard Johnson appealed to the local Civil Service Commission for his early reinstatement as law-enforcement clerk, explained that he was born under the astrological sign of Sagittarius, which makes him too restless to stay put in one spot for more than a few hours at a time...
Trick or Treat. Near Port Huron, Mich., intending to scare off Halloween pumpkin thieves, a farmer erected in his pumpkin patch a sign reading, "Beware! There is one poison pumpkin in this patch," returned to the field to find a new legend, "Now there...
...strongest pressure on the Big Steelmen came from small and medium-sized steel firms impatient for a settlement. This week the West Coast's Edgar F. Kaiser, the most impatient steelman of them all, broke the industry's united front and announced that he was ready to sign a separate peace with the Steelworkers...
Nishio's walkout will probably make it easier for Kishi to push through the Diet the revised security treaty that U.S. and Japanese diplomats are curently negotiating, and that Premier Kishi hopes to sign on a forthcoming visit...
...seven children, borrowed enough money to become a small-time farmer, struggled to keep the family alive and intact while he grabbed spare moments to paint-first copying calendars, then endlessly sketching his sister Yoshiko. When Mabe married eight years ago, his father-in-law forced him to sign a contract to paint no more ("a foolish extravagance...