Word: vendors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life, but cautious Gabriele never did. A slight, earnest man of 35, Gabriele is a farm foreman at Sant 'Ilario, near Genoa, where he lives quietly with his wife. Last year his chance-taking mother died, at 75. Last month Gabriele, walking in downtown Genoa, passed a vendor selling tickets on the Merano lottery, Italy's oldest and largest. He remembered that it was the first anniversary of his mother's death. For the first time in his life-in memory of his mother-Gabriele bought a ticket...
...Automatic Merchandising Association convention in Chicago, manufacturers showed the latest vending machines, which will dispense anything from an ice cream cone to a shot of shaving cream. In addition to machines that serve hot or cold sandwiches and chocolate sundaes, make change and give massages, there was an automatic vendor, suitable for race tracks and ballparks, that is installed under a seat and delivers a seat cushion in return...
Slow Student. In Carthage, Mo., James Ketchum, 22, was arrested after stocking up on magazines at a newsstand, telling the vendor he was going to college to study criminology, paying for the magazines with a bum $5 check...
...present-day night-shift helper is Lewis Erlanson. A jack-of-all-trades, the popular Louie works for the Crime from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. and also is a part-time florist and Stadium program vendor...
Strained is precisely the word. Before the ice cream vendor incident exploded the fact that Yale and New Haven don't get along too well into the clear, dozens of such "minor incidents" had taken place...