Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fratricidal power struggle that soured the first months of independence, Algeria needs every centime it can get. Only one Algerian in ten has a steady job. The illiteracy rate is 90%. Officials figure that the country needs at least $2 billion to rebuild, but the treasury is bare. Said Ben Bella: "We are a country emptied...
Most striking of the many enthusiastic claims for the drill is that it will not damage flesh or other soft tissues. Many of last week's conventioneers plucked up their courage and jammed a bare finger against the whirring drill. It stopped without drawing blood or even causing pain. But shoved against bone or tissue that has been hardened by chalky deposits, the drill will cut with ease. One Pittsburgh surgeon has already used it to sculpture the delicate leaflets of an aortic valve (adjoining the heart) after they had been deformed by calcification. Because its lightness and small...
...politicians. Monica Dehn, with two children to educate, had a lively interest in British education. Charles Champlin worked his way through the young satirists and playwrights, and others who are now angry at being called Angry Young Men. His interviews ranged from the Savile Club to Colin MacInnes' bare flat, where they drank scotch-laced coffee and listened to Billie Holiday records to take the chill off a freezing morning. Donald Connery, fresh from the cooler precincts of Moscow, rode the train north to such unemployment spots as Liverpool and Newcastle-on-Tyne. Though Connery's mother...
...although a segregationist, has made it plain that he does not intend to back Wallace in defying the U.S. And Attorney General Richmond Flowers, in his inaugural statement, looked ahead to pending Negro applications to the University of Alabama. Said he: "Alabama's soul will soon be laid bare before the world. God grant that we may not be ashamed...
Okada works on as many as five canvases at a time, wandering from one to another in bare feet. He uses knives, fingers, pieces of wood, rollers, "and, of course, I also have brushes." When he has "a feeling of one of my dreams," he begins to paint. He has no advance knowledge of how his canvas should come out, and thus his composition can grow naturally. "Without knowing is the best way to create something," he says...