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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came during a Senate-House conference meeting on the airport improvement bill. For three months, Oklahoma Democrat Mike Monroney, knowledgeable specialist in the jet age, had held out doggedly for the Senate's fat, $465 million airport-construction bill as opposed to the House's $297 million version. Then, one day last fortnight, influential Senator Monroney breezed into a committee session and recommended that the committee forget both bills, simply extend for two years the current airport aid of $63 million a year-only $6.000,000 more than the President had asked. Last week the extension quietly passed...
...Senate and House conferees shaved .more than $1 billion and four years off the Senate version of the omnibus housing bill, agreed on a two-year, $1,375,400,000 appropriation in the hope that it would escape the veto...
...government forbade blacks to drink anything alcoholic other than the watery government beer served in municipal bars, Zulu women have been brewing a crude moonshine of their own. A high-power popskull made of methylated spirits, carbide, potato peels or just about anything else that will ferment, this local version of skokiaan (called gavine) is often the only source of income for the "Shebeen Queens" who make it. Last week, when the Durban city council started transferring the people of Cato Manor to a new apartheid village farther away from town, the police moved in to smash the stills before...
...Lost Dutchman legend begins with Don Miguel Peralta. whose family worked the mine in the in the mid-1800s. According to one version of the story, Don Miguel's pack train of 50 mules and 100 men was attacked and massacred by a band of Apaches, who reburied the treasure to please the thunder god. But one man escaped the ambush, sold a map of the mine to two gringos...
...Sound and the Fury. A laundered but effective version of Faulkner's novel about a hard man (Yul Brynner) and a wild, bewildered girl (Joanne Woodward) who fight each other as well as the genteel Southern decay around them...