Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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ADMETUS, King of Pherae, was com- peting with other royal suitors for the hand of Pelias' daughter Alcestis. Pelias promised his daughter to the man who could yoke a wild boar and a lion to his chariot and drive them around a race course. Admetus ap pealed for help to Apollo, who tamed a wild team that Admetus drove to victory to win Alcestis. See Music, Mommy...
...money in a non-interest-bearing account in an Orlando, Fla. bank. The bank in turn lent money to Sun Valley, Inc.-a land development company of which Henry Lower is president. The company then bought up Florida lots at about $18 apiece, and with Hoffa's help began promoting the land as a haven for retired and aging Teamsters-selling the lots at prices ranging from $150 to $1,000. Customers were assured, continued the indictment, that the lots were "all on high, dry and rolling land," when in fact many were "so low and permeated with water...
...power destroyed, they had no way to communicate with the world outside, to let anyone know they were still alive. They had access to fresh water and emergency rations, and they kept alive while the oxygen lasted. They had a calendar, and as each long day passed, bringing no help or hope of help, the men crossed it off with an X. The days lengthened into a week, then into two weeks, then two days more. And that was all. The bodies of the three men were found in the storeroom. The last day they had marked...
Moslems], which has scarcely begun. I count on you all to help...
...Gaulle warned the Europeans-who are certain to vote against him-that the "new" Algeria could not be built without their help and the help of France. But De Gaulle's special appeal was to the army, which could rig next month's election against him if it chose, intimidate Moslems into abstaining or voting no. Addressing the officers of the garrison, he again spoke of the "new" Algeria, which "must be herself, otherwise-and you know this only too well-she will sever all her links with France." He set two tasks for the army: "First...