Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state's sizable Mexican-American population, apparently merely shrugged and said: "John, it's up to you." So John decided to quit. In Texas, where party politics is only slightly more refined than saloon fighting, his decision not to seek re-election was an invitation to a bare-knuckled brawl...
...passenger keep her crutches at her seat, insisting that they must be stowed in the coat compartment. Coeds have been barred from boarding with stuffed shopping bags, and hippies have faced a similar rebuff. Last week a teen-ager headed for San Francisco in Levi's, sweatshirt and bare feet painted bright red approached a TWA gate in Chicago. "You can't get aboard," ruled the agent, "unless you wash your feet-and put on some shoes...
...brilliant conductor. The Opera Company of Boston, after a triumphant tour of the nation, has brought all these requirements back to Boston. Sarah Caldwell, the Company's director, has engineered the whole thing. The massive Madame Caldwell, dressed like an acolyte at a black mass, conducts with bare fists. What is more, she conducted the opera three nights in a row, which is roughly equivalent to taking on Muhamed Ali in a match and two returns. She had absolute control over her orchestra and managed to communicate her energy to the players. Her staging of the opera was full...
Spanish-speaking MAWS meets in the Centro de Accion. A typical weekday scene in the Centro features DeJesus' assistants gesticulating on the phones about APCROSS at the front on the dark, bare room, and two rows of mothers seated facing each other, waiting to see the MAWS agent, in the back. The picture presents a startling contrast to the early, empty days at the Centro under Igleias...
...town (Marne, Mich.) background, Cole joined the company 37 years ago, when he signed on for an engineering training program. One of G.M.'s brightest tinkerers, Cole was marked as a comer in 1952 when he was asked to fire up the then dowdy Chevrolet division. In a bare 15 weeks, he developed a lighter, snappier engine that he coyly boasted had "a little intrigue." It had enough to spur a new burst of sales, and four years later Cole was head of the division...