Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Space Sir: Thank you for your excellent coverage of John Glenn's orbital flight [March 2]. I intend to save this issue for my young sons in the hope that they will benefit more by reading it than by learning of it in a history book...
MINISTER. That the Lord created them my particular benefit instead of vice versa? Who knows, maybe...
...Nepali Congress Party led by India-trained B. P. Koirala, who advocated the same vaguely socialistic ideas that animate India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Late in 1960, when Koirala pushed through legislation subjecting landlords to a property tax and expropriating large estates for the benefit of Nepal's millions of landless peasants, King Mahendra abruptly dissolved Parliament, jailed Koirala and as many of his Cabinet ministers as the inept Nepali police could lay hands on. After suppressing the nation's 15 political parties, the King has ruled through an appointed six-man Cabinet headed by brash...
...pawns were human when World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik took on the 1957 titleholder, Vassily Smyslov, in a "Peace Fund" benefit match that enthralled 15,000 Muscovites. So were the king, queen, and all the other pieces in the latest Marxist evolution of an ancient Oriental version of chess. But unlike the Eastern game-in which, according to legend, the chessmen were prisoners of war, and once taken, were beheaded-the Soviet game employed beauteous ballerinas and assorted other troupers, each of whom, upon being captured, put on a performance. So distracting, in fact, was the circus atmosphere (the show...
...orchestra played on in the dark from memory. When a flight to Luxembourg was canceled, the orchestra arrived by bus 15 minutes before concert time and with no luggage. The musicians played in sweaters and slacks. In Seville, the orchestra arrived during a flood (the concert became a benefit for flood victims), and in Aleppo, Syria, a bomb exploded outside the hall during the concert. Inside, the orchestra played calmly through a new orchestral version of the Syrian national anthem, hastily drafted by Conductor Hanson. Syrians liked it so much that it will probably be adopted as the official orchestral...