Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...long lines for meager bread rations grumbled when they saw the colonels' and the commissars' ladies breezing into well-stocked special food stores. Tito could have applied the new equality only to food, but he apparently considered it politically expedient to extend the measure over the whole field of amenities available to Communist party members. It all went to show how rapidly a vice such as egalitarianism could eat into an otherwise uncorrupted Communist society once it got a foothold...
...cotton crop was finished last week, slim, brown-haired Cliserio hopped a ride on a truck into Torreón and hiked out 2½ miles to the city airport. For a time he watched open-mouthed while the silvery planes landed and took off from the field. Then Cliserio had a dazzling idea...
...double-timed all the way back into town and invested all his savings in a wool cap with earflaps and a pair of bicycle goggles. Clutching his package he trotted back to the field and unobtrusively made his way around to an abandoned hangar on the far side of the landing area. From the doorway of the hangar he watched for a chance to put his idea into effect...
...last two seasons, freckle-faced Francis ("Reds") Bagnell had been a pretty good country halfback for the University of Pennsylvania, but there was never a stampede to pick him for the All-America. Last week, in a thrilling seesaw with Dartmouth on Franklin Field, Penn's captain wrote "Bagnell" into the records big enough for all the pickers...
...invasion-from-Mars. The Federal Communications Commission caused it all last week by handing down a final decision on color TV. As it had indicated it would last month, FCC ruled out the dot sequential system of RCA and the line sequential of Color Television Inc., plumped for the field sequential system of CBS (TIME...