Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great grey city. A small Stars and Stripes fluttered from the left fender; the license plate read "U.S.A. 1." From hundreds of thousands of Londoners thronging outside rows of semidetached brick houses, leaning out of town mansions, tumbling out of pubs, standing six deep in Hyde Park, the shouts went up: "Glad to see you, Ike," "Welcome," "Good for you, Ike." As the Rolls-Royce rolled into Grosvenor Square, from which General Eisenhower had directed his victorious World War II armies (G.I.s called the square "Eisenhower Platz"), a husky, shirtsleeved man said: "We like him because we remember him from...
...Chicken for a Baby. Then he went back to the jungle. For his first hospital, Dr. Dooley picked Nam Tha, a tiny village in north Laos. The royal government supplied 44 canoes for the eight-day trip to get his 14 tons of equipment to the site. "We built a hospital without water or electricity," says Dr. Dooley. "We had 35 beds, 50 mats, and a daily sick call of 100 persons." He insisted that even the poorest patients pay some fee, arguing that charity undermines self-respect, usually collected a pig as fee for an operation, a chicken...
...movie attendance for the last week of July topped all records, as 82,300,000 people went to the flicks to cool off. A second record from the computers of Hollywood's Pollster Albert Sindlinger: 52,100,000 of the moviegoers were found at drive-ins, largest outdoor attendance ever...
...week-long meeting went on, delegates heard an earful of reports and recommendations. Items...
...Heavy Government financing ($13 billion deficit last year), a record volume of state and local fund-raising in the first half of 1959, and a jump in consumer credit have added to the competition for funds. Following the surge, interest rates on bank business loans in 19 major cities went from 4.17% in 1958's second half to 4.87% in June -and are expected to go higher (see chart...