Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that only on a special occasion." His mother, Ida Littman Javits, had been abandoned by her parents in Palestine and forced to start work at the age of six. Illiterate until she was past 50, she helped support her family by selling dry goods from a pushcart (last winter, on a trip to Israel, Javits stopped in Safed to dedicate Ida Littman Javits Street). The Javits family lived rent-free because Immigrant Morris Javits worked as janitor for three verminous tenements. In these tenements were enough voters to whet Tammany's appetite. An arrangement was made: at election time...
...Manhattan's 1,472-ft. Empire State Building announced that out of respect for migrating birds and the National Audubon Society, it has doused the building's stationary beacon, and will keep it doused until Nov. 1, when most of the feathered friends are safe in their winter resorts...
...five-story Playboy Building. That will give Hefner room for a new project. He has hired the whole staff of Mad, a short-lived satirical pulp, and out of Playboy's $750,000 profit (before taxes) in 1956, will launch a still unnamed new magazine this winter...
...Last week, only nine years after the British turned over the Khyber's defenses to the new and troubled state of Pakistan, the long-feared penetration of Russian military influence into Afghanistan was announced as a fact. In Kabul, Afghanistan's Strongman Mohammed Daoud Khan, who last winter accepted a $100 million economic credit from the touring Soviet twins, Bulganin and Khrushchev, announced that his government had signed an agreement with the Soviet Union "for strengthening Afghanistan's defenses." The whole deal, he added, was made "without any political strings attached...
Television networks will throw around more money this fall and winter than ever before, put on more spectaculars, more color, more old movies ($150 million worth) than have ever been seen. It will, quite obviously, be the biggest season to date. A sampling of shows to come...