Word: toole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They call Lumumba the leader of rising hope in Africa, which (however much he has been discredited), he is, and they allege that Tshombe is a tool of the Belgian government, which, in some measure, he is also. What they do not acknowledge is the fact that the former's leadership is of a very dubious brand indeed, and that the latter will not let anyone, including, if need be, Belgium, distract him from his ambitions of independence...
...bought the pots but hired the woman as his "consultant." After a little coaxing she took him to her tomato patch on top of the mound, showed him a hole leading to a rifled Bronze Age tomb. More coaxing persuaded her to probe with an iron rod (a traditional tool of grave robbers) and show the archaeologist a series of circular stones covering more tombs...
...Motors was readying its new compact, one of a new group of scaled-down big cars that will hit the 1961 market. Its name: the Oldsmobile F-85, a smaller version of its big-car brother with a new eight-cylinder, 145-h.p., water-cooled part-aluminum engine. Machine-tool orders in June totaled $43.2 million, a $5 million increase over May. June contracts for new construction rose $135 million over May, to $3,472,276,000, reported F. W. Dodge Corp., building-industry analysts. Since most of the construction should start immediately, said George Cline Smith, vice president...
Dalkowski's father, a vocational buffer in an electric-tool plant in New Britain, Conn, and an avocational baseball buff, trained Steve for the outfield. But the boy tried pitching in high school, quickly caught the strike-out bug. Says Dalkowski: "I didn't win, but when I got the ball over the plate, it was fun to watch them swing." Signed by the Baltimore Orioles after graduation in 1957, Steve joined a rookie farm club in Kingsport, Tenn. "I remember my record," he recalls, "because it was so even: 121 strike-outs and 129 walks...
...employers are seeking them out in Italy. A little-known provision in the U.S. immigration laws provides that workers with skills needed in the U.S. are to be at the top of the list in getting admitted to the U.S. The current most wanted list favors doctors, veterinarians, nurses, tool and die makers, teachers and engineers. West Germany has set up recruiting bureaus in Athens, Madrid and Naples, this year imported 43,000 workers from Italy, 13,000 from Greece and Spain. The German postal administration even imported a group of Spaniards, rushed them through a language course to learn...