Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marines effectively ended the cycle of revolutions, disarmed rebels and bandits in mountain warfare (the death toll: 1,500 Haitians), restored peasants to the land, improved health and sanitation, built roads. Setting up a small gendarmerie, they lifted from Haiti the crushing burden of an army that once had 6,500 general and staff officers. They trained civil servants, building a nucleus of Haitians competent to run the machinery of government. Most important, they set up rural schools, where peasants could begin to get the education they needed to compete with the elite. Such was the reputation of the Americans...
...Consolation. Not until many hours later, when police cordoned off the deathly mudstretch, did India learn the extent of the tragedy. The toll: 316 dead (267 women & children); 200 missing, probably dead; 2,000 injured. Many of the hurt ones could not be traced because their relatives had dragged them off, not to hospital but to the sacred confluence, in the belief that its touch might heal their suffering...
Because of a lack of comparative scores, it's still too early to toll how the Crimson ought to do, but a common opponent is forthcoming, and it will then be obvious what the varsity must do. Yale had its fist eastern Intercollegiate meet last Saturday and swamped Army, 67 to 13. The Crimson faces Army this weekend. And it hopes to end Yale's unbeaten string of 100-odd meets at the end of the season...
...reason why FCC cannot set aside certain channels for their use, while free telecasting continues on all the other channels. They think the tradition of free programs is no more sacrosanct than the tradition of free roads; those who want to travel faster now pay to use toll roads. In the same way, they feel that televiewers willing to pay to see better programs should be permitted to do so. distressed," while retaining the present provision permitting losses to be carried forward five years...
...toll mounted last week. One man was brained with a monkey wrench as he lay sleeping. A woman, tied to a chair, was tortured with a carving knife until she died; two stripteasers were sliced to death with razors; four gangsters were shot down in a columnist's living room; a bartender was murdered in his own saloon, and a small boy was killed by a drunken hit & run driver. A few victims survived, including the two teen-agers who were only beaten to a pulp, and the woman in the flimsy nightgown who was mauled by masked intruders...