Word: tins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bolivia, Dec. 15--President Victor Paz Estenssore ordered his military chief today to fly to the tin mining center of Orure to pick up four Americans and 15 other hostages held by anti-government miners since...
...idea of kidnaping Americans seemed to be spreading. In Bolivia, Communist-led tin miners announced that they were holding four Americans -two U.S.I.S. officials, an Alliance labor adviser, a Peace Corpsman-and would keep them until the Bolivian government released three miners arrested for murder and misuse of union funds...
Relief on Sunday. The worst quality of broadcast news, people reported, was that it talked too much without saying enough new. "I'm getting claustrophobia or a tin ear or something," said one respondent. "If they do mention something I'm interested in, it slides right by me." "The same thing over and over," was the frequent complaint. In contrast, the newspaper reader can follow the path of his own interests, guided but not compelled by headlines and layout...
...Senate, Johnson drew early attention by organizing and running the Preparedness Subcommittee after the start of the Korean war. The subcommittee saved the taxpayers $500 million by recommending changes in the tin program, another $1 billion by discovering that the Government was paying too much for natural rubber. Johnson's talent for getting his colleagues to agree was already in evidence: all 46 of the subcommittee's reports were unanimous...
...priority was raising a library. Pitts armed his students with tin cans so that they could dun Negro families for "a mile of dimes." Bull Connor, then Birmingham's commissioner of public safety, vetoed the drive. "What about all these kids with their tin cans?" Pitts asked, but Connor stood firm, and Pitts had to call off the drive. Incensed at Connor's meanness, people all over the country chipped in books. Yale students collected 6,000 books and delivered them personally; the Miles library now has 28,000 volumes...