Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another example of Sihanouk's ability to shift with the winds of international politics. Though Cambodia's chubby "god-king" is hardly the picture of a slender reed of bamboo, he is highly pliable nonetheless. So, apparently, is his nation's rickety economy, which seems perpetually bent out of shape. Teachers, civil servants and even the 30,000-man army frequently go without pay. Air conditioners in most of the capital's sticky offices are turned on only when important visitors arrive. Roadways are falling apart, but when Sihanouk recently ordered a load limit of eight...
...sleazy, wide-open border town of Tijuana attracts hundreds of pleasure-bent college students each spring. One band of California youngsters, 300 strong, had more to show for their Mexican trip this year than hangovers or tourist trinkets. They spent Easter vacations in Tijuana's forlorn slum district, building an X-ray clinic, a food and drug warehouse, a free-milk bar for youngsters and a 16-crib hospital for infants...
...Rocks. A lot is happening around Miles these days-besides, that is, the tornado that barely missed the company on its way through Elkhart last week (see THE NATION). Once a narrowly based, family-owned business, Miles has transformed itself into an expansion-bent producer of more than 200 medical and pharmaceutical items, with 18 plants in the U.S. and abroad, sales in 101 countries. Last year it started new drug and chemical plants in France, Venezuela and Guatemala, bought up three new companies. Last week Miles announced that it will double the size (cost...
Yovicsin entered Peter Bent Brigham in February for three days of . Doctors there advised him to enter clinic to be treated by Dr. Kirklin, has performed more than 150 operations succesfully...
...fund raising, and Young's partner, a well-to-do widow named Elizabeth Tyler. Young set forth the Klan's goal in terms of Christian morality v. sin. The enemies of America, the Klan proclaimed, were booze, loose women, Jews, Negroes, Roman Catholics (whose "dago" Pope was bent on taking over the U.S.), and anybody else who was not a native-born white Protestant Anglo-Saxon. Many churchmen across the nation acclaimed the Klan's program, and in the South especially, Methodist and Baptist clergymen lent the K.K.K. massive support. It was not long before it blossomed...