Word: tram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...canyon floor. Finally, after nine months, the job was finished. Cost to U.S. Steel: $680,000, nearly $230,000 more than its firm bid. When and if all the guano is mined in ten years or so, says Ruben, "we'll simply offer tourists the only tram ride across the greatest hole on earth...
...proprietary interest in Dawn and Lainy, this once the A.S.U. refuses to dip into its treasury to help them tram. This trip, the A.S.U. argues is private, and on the girls. Wistfully adding up her small salary as a department-store salesgirl, Dawn Fraser wondered this week how she would ever pay for a period of necessary workouts in tropical Townsville. "Just a little of that ?50,000 the A.S.U. has earmarked for training would be a big help," she admitted. But like the dedicated Aussie swimmer she is she added: "I will arrive in Hawaii fit, even...
Into Riot. In orderly ranks in the early morning, they marched on the city (pop-359,000). All wore work clothes, some carried hammers on their shoulders. On the way to town they persuaded office workers and tram employees to join them. At 11 a.m., now a vast crowd, they gathered in front of City Hall. A Communist official tried to speak to them from the top of a public-address truck. A group of youths scrambled up onto the truck and began manhandling the Communist; most of the workers did not mix in; neither did the onlooking cops. Then...
Rome. There is real danger of a Communist victory in the Holy City. In 1952 the Christian Democrats were actually outpolled by the allied Socialist-Communist slate, but saved by the electoral law. Under fat, fumbling Mayor Salvatore Rebecchini, Rome has been plagued by tram strikes, power and water shortages. He finally withdrew as a candidate for reelection, in the face of Communist charges of corruption centering on the projected Hotel Hilton, which is yet to be erected on Rome's outskirts. The Communist candidate is Giuseppe di Vittorio, a tough Red union leader who is rated second only...
...first to encounter the new professor of ancient Oriental history. The ladies never knew just how low to bow. Even more disconcerting, the professor would merely tip his brown fedora, whatever one did, and quietly amble on. Sometimes he would ride to the college by bus and crowded electric tram. But if he happened to be late, he would occasionally pull up in an imperial limousine with the Emperor's chrysanthemum crest on the door. Furthermore, there was the problem of knowing how to address him. The new professor was none other than Prince Takahito Mikasa, 39, brother...