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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Fighting her way through a blizzard from New York to a Pittsburgh speaking date, Eleanor Roosevelt, a lively 75, first had her plane land in Columbus, then dauntlessly hopped a bus for a 200-mile last lap. After the bus was delayed by a traffic jam and snowdrifts, Pennsylvania state police rescued Mrs. Roosevelt but did not get her to Pittsburgh until hours too late. Losing no more time, she caught a train back to Manhattan. How had she whiled away her time on the snailish bus? "Waiting to get there...
...usually fights for a few immediate benefits rather than basic, longterm social changes. "What idealist can be challenged now by the 'plight' of workers struggling to secure an increase in pay so that they may purchase a color television set, a better car, a more up-to-date kitchen appliance...
...volubly about his love affair with Carole, a onetime photographer's model, and the trysting apartments he rented under an assumed name. He lied to his wife about his affair to spare her pride, he said. But he and Barbara had their own "armistice agreement," permitting them to date on the side. To protect his credit rating while he was dickering on the "deal" to build his hospital, they decided to postpone a divorce and to present a public facade of married bliss. To seal the bargain, he gave her a new Cadillac. In September, Carole left her husband...
...biggest new field has been opened in Libya. Already 16 companies have invested $175 million for 84 concessions over the country's 680,000 sq. mi. To date, 61 wells have been drilled, and 13 were producers. The two discovery wells -Zeltan One and Zeltan Two-brought in by Esso Standard (Libya) Inc. in the oil-rich Sirte district are gushing 32,500 bbl. a day between them. The company is planning construction of a 30-in. pipeline to the Mediterranean's Gulf of Sirte with an initial daily capacity of 100,000 bbl., hopes to have...
...speaks with dry severity of her books, classing them as "between novels and plays." None have been staged, though six have been adapted for radio. She writes in dialogue because "it just came naturally-I think in conversation." But she will not tolerate "frivolous" topics, as, for instance, the date of her birth ("Such matters are gossip...