Word: ara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grants and loans for a rebuilding program in which 60 of 84 buildings to be torn down are still structurally sound. Neilan saved his severest criticism for the Area Redevelopment Administration, whose agents, said he, are "combing the country in search of communities which will accept such tokens of ARA generosity as a ski lift or waterworks or a sewer line at the expense of every taxpayer." Notable ARA projects...
...Albany, Ind., because three paint sprayers and three wood finishers were needed for seasonal work in a plywood plant, ARA decided to start a $30,000 training course for such workers. The company's employment office protested that the course was unnecessary, only to be told by someone from ARA: "You will have a training program whether you like it or not." The project bogged down when no teachers could be found...
Married. Virginia Leftwich ("Gigi") Graham, 17, eldest of Evangelist Billy Graham's five children; and Stephan Tchividjian, 23, son of Millionaire Financier Ara Tchividjian, the Baptist minister's most active Swiss supporter; in a religious ceremony (which followed by six days the mandatory Swiss civil ceremony) that was presided over by Graham, who also gave the bride away; in Montreux, Switzerland...
Abdullah Tariki is in and out of Cairo frequently, helping organize arms shipments to Saudi Arabian dissidents by air and across the long, empty border with Kuwait. Nasser has won over Saudi Ara bia's Ambassador to West Germany, who resigned a fortnight ago in protest at his country's failure to institute reforms. At least six other Saudi ambassadors are sympathetic to Nasser's cause...
...supposed to pass-in fact, he rarely runs at all. "He's got an open field in front of him half the time," says Athletic Director Stu Holcomb, "and he won't even cross the line of scrimmage." But this is just fine with Myers' coach, Ara Parseghian, who says: "What are you going to do with a kid who threw 73 touchdown passes in high school?" Mainly because Parseghian has the answer (let Myers pass), Northwestern's surprising Wildcats are unbeaten in five games this season, rank...