Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John XXIII before him, Paul VI seems to have discovered that elevation to the most powerful spiritual office on earth does not automatically give him control of Rome's vast bureaucracy. "It has been written of my predecessor that he once said, 'I'm in a bag here,' " the Pope told a friend recently. "Well, I'm not in a bag. I'm inside a crusher...
...special reasons for shunning the SST. General Dynamics was not in much of a gambling mood after having lost $425 million on production of its Convair 880 and 990 jet liners; besides, it recently won the rich and controversial TFX fighter contract, and would be quite unlikely to bag two in a row from Washington. Douglas is preoccupied with its new short-range DC-9, for which it has only a disappointing 18 orders; in addition, President Donald Douglas Jr., 46, who has become the active manager of the company, is less daring than his father, Chairman Donald Douglas...
...year earned $1,400,000 on sales of $14 million. This year in Tanganyika, they fired up East Africa's first steel rolling mill and are building a brewery and candy factory. In Uganda, judiciously allied with the government's development corporation, they will also build a bag factory and eventually pulp and paper mills, and they have longer-range plans for distilling alcohol and manufacturing drugs. "We are," boasts Jayant, "the only people in East Africa who are going full speed ahead...
...distinguished citizenship award and, best of all, a $1,800,000 bridge over the Wabash named for him. "All right, everybody off my bridge," cried a delighted Red at the dedication. He had learned to swim in the Wabash, he said, "and boy, it was stuffy in that bag with them kittens...
...waiting at the summer home. "I think I'm going to have the baby," said Jackie. Gently, she told Caroline and John that she had to leave, suggested they might have their lunch at "Grampy Joe" Kennedy's place down the beach. Then she packed a bag. By 11:20 a.m., Jackie, Dr. Walsh and a Secret Service man were in a helicopter bound for Otis Air Force Base hospital, 20 miles away...