Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just over a year, excessive consumption of imported raw materials-aggravated by the post-Suez necessity of buying U.S. "dollar oil"-has cut French gold and foreign-exchange reserves from $1.7 billion to $934 million. Between the Algerian war (daily cost: about $3,000,000) and increased old-age pensions, this year's national budget shows a record $3.5 billion deficit...
...been struggling with an increasingly serious balance-of-payments crisis. John Costello met this courageously by slashing imports drastically, but meantime unemployment rose to 90,000 (out of a population of 3,000,000), and construction slumped. And every year some 30,000 to 40.000 Irish of working age are emigrating, mostly to Britain, where the average wage is 50% higher than in Ireland...
...army forces, and has gradually bolstered his little band of men with young revolutionaries who slipped through the army cordon to join up. Last week the identity of three recent Castro recruits came to light, to pose a touchy problem for the U.S. State Department. They were Americans, teen-age sons of U.S. Navymen stationed at the Navy's Guantanamo Bay base near Cuba's eastern...
...Clock Watcher. The railbirds booed only because they were hoping for a record. But Runner Ron runs against competitors, not the clock. Since his teen-age days in Dublin's Catholic University School he has been content to jog along just fast enough to win. His better than four-minute victory in the 1,500-meter Olympic run in Melbourne last fall gave him all the proof he cares to have that he can go as fast...
Roberta has more than the un-glamour of middle age. to recommend her-an open, frankly sentimental, strongly appealing style. She makes her entrance chanting Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing in a slightly husky, twangy voice. After the applause dies down, she may take off her glasses, pick up a battered cymbal and start flailing it with a wire brush while she launches into a foot-stomping, open-throated jazz version of Lazy River...