Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tribal alliance over a haunch of charred flesh and a gourdful of fermented juice, such working sessions have been as much a part of diplomacy as the formal conference. Thanks largely to his wit and disarming manner at parties, Benjamin Franklin coaxed 55 million livres out of a nearly bankrupt French government during American Revolution. Bound for the Congress of Vienna, Talleyrand told King Louis XVIII, "Sire, I have more need of casseroles than of written instructions," and his success in softening the terms imposed on his defeated nation in 1815 was due in no small part to the superb...
...officials then mistake a bankrupt dandy passing through town for the inspector. The young man, played by Schmidt, manages to make off with a good deal of cash and the mayor's daughter's virtue before he is discovered...
...shortage. Conant "contemplates with horror" the fact that 34% of all seventh-and eighth-grade mathematics classes are taught by teachers whose college training covered less than two elementary courses in the subject. Concludes Conant: "The policy of certification based on the completion of state-specified course requirements is bankrupt...
...Equally bankrupt is the widespread policy of giving teachers a raise every time they pass a course after hours-any course, including "Mickey Mouse" guts like driver education. "I just love taking courses," one teacher told Conant. "I could keep on taking courses all my life." Says Conant: "I felt as if I were talking to opium smokers...
Born. To Mickey Rooney, 42, balding, bespectacled, bankrupt Hollywood cinemite and Barbara Ann Rooney, 26, his fifth wife: their fourth child, third daughter (Mickey has three sons from previous marriages); in Santa Monica...