Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finagled luxurious European jaunts, in the company of pretty secretaries, at the taxpayer's expense. His third wife lives in Puerto Rico while drawing $20,000 annually as a staff member; estranged from her about two years ago, Powell has recently been depositing her pay in his own account. Another staff member was a former beauty queen whose diligence once earned her a raise from $10,144 to $15,583 a year. Even as rebellion flared in Powell's own committee last week, the House Administration Committee launched a separate investigation of his expense-account sleight of hand...
...tough problems of U.S. North ern school integration - the ironies of good intentions and painful misunder standings, the subtleties of trying to ig nore skin color while trying to take it into account, the vain hope of having schools that serve both slums and middle-class neighborhoods- welled up last week in New York City's Harlem...
...Wendell Phillips, paleontologist, is rather like a mirage on one of the Arabian deserts that he frequents. He looks too good to be true and he never quite comes into focus. By his own account, he has an apartment in Hawaii that is "the most beautiful in the world." He also says he has the world's largest library in South Arabia, owns part of a large apartment complex in Sacramento. He neither smokes nor drinks, but he is such a prodigious dancer that in his own words, "I have to take young 17-and 18-year-old girls...
...part, it reflects the persistence of the legend surrounding J.F.K.; time seems to enhance rather than diminish the glow of his martyrdom. To the almost 200 Kennedy books, two more were added in recent weeks by exPress Secretary Pierre Salinger and a former J.F.K. buddy, Paul Fay; a "definitive" account of the assassination by William Manchester is scheduled for publication early next year...
ITALY. Pirelli and Ceat, who account for about 75% of the country's tires, have as yet barely noticed the arrival of Goodyear and Firestone, whose plants have reached full production only within the past 18 months. But Goodyear officials believe that the Italians underestimated the extent of their economic boom and are not geared up to cope with the market. Having been in Italy far longer, Esso is now second only to the state-owned gas distributor A.G.I.P., and has increased its sales nearly 20% over the past twelve months -thanks in part to its popular "tiger...