Word: antee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lull on the Ground. The idea of a holiday from death was first proposed on Dec. 7 by the Viet Cong, which does not celebrate the birth of Christ. Since it was plainly intended as a propaganda ploy, the Communist offer of a twelve-hour cease-fire was at first...
Poker Game. What followed resembled in some respects a war game, in others a game of poker. First the Administration announced that it would sell 100,000 tons of excess aluminum from the Government's huge stockpile, hoping to pressure the companies by weakening prices (yet denying any such...
Custom Caddy. Soon Elvis Presley was upping the ante, wearing a full suit of gold lame. So did Elvis' imitators, and now Liberace complains, "I really have to exaggerate to look different and to top them." He also has to spend. His suits run $10,000 apiece, and they...
In 1958, a disastrous fire at Chicago's Our Lady of the Angels grammar school took the lives of 92 pupils, injured 76 others, and left scores of parents with clear grounds for suing the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Chicago. Understandably, the parents were loath to go to court...
Skouras says he is willing to put in some $20 million of his own, has large financing from Marine Midland Trust Co. and Chase Manhattan Bank, and wants the Government to ante up about $125 million. The cost is stiff-but anything would be a bargain if it could help...