Word: beef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cartoon in an Argentine magazine. "That's the President himself!" Bitter jokes are beginning to revolve around President Arturo Illia, 63, the gentle country doctor who took office nine months ago. Illia's prescription was to sit back and hope that the rich land of wheat and beef would heal itself after 1 8 months of frenetic military rule. In the beginning most Argentines heartily agreed. Now, it seems, nothing is not enough...
...contracts of 13 private companies (mostly U.S.), and since then the companies have cut back production while lawyers argue the case in court. Oil supplies have been maintained by uncapping state-owned reserve wells, and some experts predict that Argentina will be forced to import oil before December. The beef industry is worse off. With herds decimated by two years of drought, cattlemen are holding back stock, hoping to rebuild. Monday and Tuesday have been declared meatless days, and Argentines have been faced with the ignominy of importing beef from neighboring Uruguay for the first time ever...
...slimy 99° in Manhattan is strictly for lizards, but 2,500 hot-blooded types nevertheless turned out for the $100-a-seat premiere of Night of the Iguana at Philharmonic Hall. The acoustics were spotty as usual, the beef Puerto Vallarta even worse, and Mrs. Burton, in star-spangled blue, presided until Dickie showed up after curtains at Hamlet. But honors for the evening went to Ava Gardner, 41, in aqua satin, looking generations lovelier than the blowsy harridan she played onscreen. With the hordes outside hollering "We want Ava," she could hardly wait until after supper to flee...
...double. He walked along a ten-story ledge and hung from a wire 70 ft. high. Once he was warned that a stream was too dangerous to swim in, being chock full of poisonous serpents, carnivorous disease-carrying insects and razor-teethed fish. Belmondo tossed a chunk of corned beef into the water. When nothing happened to it, he dove in, saying: "What the hell, if they're not going to chew on that they're certainly not going...
Several of the also-rans did impressively well. The fastest sales increases were made by American Petrofina, up 114.8%, and by Iowa Beef Packers, whose 114.6% gain was due largely to increased capacity. Amerada Petroleum, in 355th place, had the highest profit margin for the sixth consecutive year-30.2% of sales-thanks largely to its low overhead. When it came to return on invested capital, Avon led with 34.3%, followed closely by Gillette's 34.1%, General Dynamics 32.2%, Smith Kline & French's 30.9% . On the average, the 500 earned better than 6% on sales and 9% on invested...