Word: three
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eskimos at Grandview Hills No. 1 are the first who ever worked on an oil rig. They were hired because of the difficulty of recruiting white workers, mostly married, for long term work so far north. Three were taken on last summer and flown south for training on Alberta rigs. One went back to muskrat trapping, but the other two form the nucleus of the six-man Eskimo contingent on the well...
With solemn assurance from the Justice Department that they would not be violating antitrust laws, the presidents of the three television networks met in secret conclave last week. Topic of discussion: FCC Chairman John Doerfer's "suggestion" that the networks take turns every week presenting a half hour of informational, cultural and educational programs daily, Mondays through Fridays (total: 2½ hours a week...
...Reports. Even ABC, lagging far behind, could boast of The Churchill Memoirs. Viewers agreed with Critic Gould that "the notion that a trustee of the public airways is deserving of applause because he reserves for the public weal a total of 2½ hours out of every three weeks borders on the incredible...
...began singing at benefits -some nights for Negroes, some nights for whites. Soon she joined a traveling group called The Black Manhattan Brothers (eleven men and Miriam), and for three years she barnstormed all over Rhodesia, the Belgian Congo and South Africa. "The bus often broke down," Miriam remembers, "and after the first five months I was crying all the time. But they kept telling me the show must go on. We always managed to get there on time...
...Yadin disagreed. He knew that the cities of Hazor and Gezer, also attributed to Solomon, had a different kind of wall, and he wondered why Solomon did not build the same style of fortification around all three cities. Following his hunch, he led a group of student-archaeologists to Megiddo. In three days he found what he was looking for: an earlier wall in the style of Hazor and Gezer. This wall, he believes, was really built by Solomon. The later wall and the stables were probably built by Ahab, who became King of Israel 50 years after Solomon...