Word: bailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...international reserve currency. Says one leading European central banker: "What we did once again was to buy time for the British. What use they will make of it remains to be seen, but we are quite pessimistic." Another banker puts an "absolute limit" of one year on continuing to bail out Britain. The French, who chipped in $100 million to last week's rescue for purely political reasons because they do not want to antagonize Britain while they are dealing with the NATO crisis and other problems, would very likely say non the next time...
Died. Mary Heaton Vorse, 84, journalist and author, a devoutly prolabor New Englander who for three decades reported the birth pangs of U.S. unions in countless articles and five books (Labor's New Millions), often abandoning tier sidelines role to bail out imprisoned labor leaders and aid strikers' families; of a rupture of the abdominal aorta; in Provincetown, Mass...
...voice: "Midair, mid-air"-Air Force shorthand for collision. Then, sounding almost laconic, Cotton radioed guidance to the stricken ship's two-man crew: "O.K., it looks like your tail is gone . . . You'll probably spin." And as the B70 did wind into a flat spin: "Bail out." Then: "One capsule has ejected, I don't know which one." Seconds later: "It's the left capsule...
...vicinity of Acapulco but was expelled by the Mexican government. Early this year a Texas judge sentenced him tentatively to 30 years in jail and a $40,000 fine for transporting half an ounce of marijuana and failing to pay tax on it (he is out on bail). He still runs the International Foundation for Internal Freedom (I.F.I.F. for short), which is dedicated to making LSD and psilocybin as available as chewing...
...program easier to understand by renaming lower-level requirements "basic requirements" and upper-level requirements "total program requirements." The governor of an Argentinian province illegally seizes seven boxes of Harvard fossils. Timothy Leary is arrested in Millbrook, N.Y., for allegedly possessing narcotics, pleads innocent and is released on $5000 bail, announces that he is going to stop using LSD because of possible side-effects, and asks Harvard for two months' back salary...