Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with reports that both an Atlas ICBM and a satellite-carrying Vanguard rocket will be launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. in early December, the week brought solid missile news. Items...
Paying Back. When the rebels tried to extend the strike to Havana, they bumped squarely into two pillars of the Batista regime-solid prosperity and a tough, bull-necked labor leader named Eusebio Mujal, 44. As secretary-general of the Confederation of Cuban Workers (C.T.C.), Mujal bosses 1,200,000 workers, half the total labor force, and he bosses them for Batista. Guarded by a cordon of bully boys in open-necked shirts, Mujal explained his stand bluntly last week: "People who treat labor well deserve well of labor...
...periods only, there are no provisions for taking food, and no latrine facilities. Little attempt has been made to protect the wearer against the fierce temperature effects of empty space. If he were exposed to full sunlight in a vacuum, he would probably fry on one side and freeze solid on the other...
Under the direction of Attilio Poto, the work received a performance that was consistently solid and occasionally superb. "The Creation" contains some of Haydn's greatest music, and this was conveyed without any of the idiosyncracies that can so easily mar an otherwise satisfactory reading...
...American arms shipments reveal to France the degree of support it may expect now, as in October of 1956, from its American ally, but its effect on Bourguiba can only be slight when we pause to reflect that Bourguiba probably remembers, if you do not, America's solid rejection of colonialism and gunboat diplomacy during the rise of Castillo Amaras in Guatemala...