Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arab refugees would create a potential fifth column in their young state. They point with alarm to thinly veiled references in Arab newspapers to the "coming second round" (i.e., of the Palestine war). The Israeli offer to admit some of the refugees provided they can get the Gaza strip from Egypt is generally regarded as an evasion, because no one seriously expects Egypt to cede the Gaza strip unless Israel, in return, gives up part of the Negeb area. This possibility is considered even more fantastic because the Negeb, Israel's southern desert, has become a burning symbol...
...several million other Palooka fans, who follow the daily adventures of their comic-strip hero in 665 U.S. newspapers and 125 foreign ones, Heavyweight Champion Palooka's wedding to Cheese Heiress Ann Howe will be the marriage of the year -after one of the longest engagements on record. For 18 years, Cartoonist Fisher has tantalized his readers by discovering new, insuperable obstacles to the Howe-Palooka nuptials every time the perfect lovers seem about to get hitched. This week he will bow to "popular demand" and draw the knot in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Fisher's home town. Says...
Mexicans took it hard. They protested when workmen dragged Cuauhtémoc from his perch, moved in on the Statue of Columbus (see cut). Their resentment grew when they learned that the Paseo would have a two-foot strip down the middle, planted to nopal and cactus. "These are the only places where pedestrians may now take refuge," screamed El Universal, "and they fill it with cactus...
...highway system from New Haven to the Massachusett's border, there remains only one big missing link in the concrete speedway from the Holland Tunnel to Portland, Maine. From Sturbridge, Massachusetts, where the Connecticut road ends, to Salisbury, the southern terminus of New Hampshire's new 15 mile paved strip, 150 miles of straggling, second-rate reads are Massachusetts' contribution to the east coast highway system. This month the State Legislature has a chance to hitch together the loose end of that Maine to Manhattan chain. In debating the authorization of a $100,000,000 bond issue, the legislators will...
...skills handicapped men & women can master. In a sample scene a wife with one arm expertly ran a sewing machine, and teased her husband, also one-armed, into helping her fix the house for a bridge party; he deftly whisked a vacuum cleaner around the room, then hung a strip of new wallpaper. Then, in a business scene, a stenographer with one leg operated office equipment; her one-legged boss interviewed salesmen who demonstrated golf and fishing equipment to him. Kruger, no longer an active officer in the organization, beamingly got into the act to show off his one-armed...