Word: tars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alive . . ." Broadcaster Richards, 58, is a friendly, hard-working man with a habit of calling everybody "brother." His father was also an Adventist evangelist, and Harold got his start at 17, preaching at Adventist "campaigns," i.e., revival meetings, in the U.S. and Canada. His first parish was a tiny, tar-papered church in Ottawa, where he boosted the congregation from...
Israel's new President Isaac Ben Zvi, a plain-living and frugal man who lived for 26 years in a tar-papered wooden shack, refused to let the government buy him a mansion befitting his title. He finally settled for a small house with office space on the first floor, living quarters on the second, and a large hut in the yard for official receptions...
...entrance to the specially built 8,000-seat "tabernacle," a banner proclaims: BILLY GRAHAM'S GREATER ALBUQUERQUE CRUSADE. Despite the threatening windy weather which has dusted the nearby Sandia Mountains with the season's first snow, some 7,000 people are already waiting in the steel and tar-paper structure-the largest indoor gathering ever assembled in Albuquerque. A Plymouth sedan drives up, and out of it steps the Rev. William Franklin (Billy) Graham, showman, salesman, pressagent, preacher- the hottest Protestant soul-saver since the late Billy Sunday quit the sawdust trail. Albuquerque last week had the honor...
Whitewash & Tar. For years the most feared bandit in all Orgosolo has been a dark-eyed ruffian named Gian Battista Liandru, who turned outlaw some 32 years ago when he became bored with sheepherding at the age of 17. In time Liandru's forays became as legendary in the Sardinian hills as those of Jesse James in Missouri. Local law officers credited him and his band with more crimes than they could ever have found time to commit, but they could never find him to press the charges. Then, three years ago, Liandru's luck seemed to turn...
...Merck & Co. announced that Dr. Lewis H. Sarett has achieved the "total synthesis" of cortisone from a common coal-tar material, instead of having to start with scarce and costly bile acids (TIME...