Word: events
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many Italians have followed since. The people of San Marco live mainly on chestnuts and vegetables, seldom taste meat, except on four feast days each year. Last week the dour and cagey villagers danced self-consciously in the streets before the cameras that had come to record the biggest event ever to take place in San Marco d'Urri...
...upon an unconditional boost. Item 2: The industry demands the right to change work rules hallowed by tradition and by the seemingly partial administration of the Railway Labor Act; labor categorically refuses any such changes. Item 3: Management has taken out six-month insurance to cover overhead in the event of a prolonged stoppage...
Anew book by Eric Hodgins, author of the Blandings novels, is an event. Doubly so when it is illustrated by the deft hand of Cartoonist Alan Dunn. This week Doubleday & Company brings out their combined work: Enough Time? The Pattern of Executive Life ($2.50), published in cooperation with TIME, the Weekly Newsmagazine. On this page...
...hour-long chat with President Eisenhower. Officially, the two discussed civil defense but. Rocky admitted, they had got around to the subject of politics. Rockefeller grinningly refused to tell anything more, but word soon leaked out that he had received Ike's assurances of detached neutrality in the event of a Rockefeller-Nixon battle for the G.O.P. nomination. ¶ Adlai Stevenson's ghostly candidacy got a blunt no-confidence vote from a onetime backer. Jack Matthews, president of the Texas-for-Stevenson clubs, told reporters of a recent encounter with Harry Truman, who greeted him, he said, with...
Though the members of the expedition were thrilled by this event, there were other buildings dating from later periods--the periods of Roman and Byzantine influence--that had enormous significance...