Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Then one night he woke to find his house aswarm with mutinous soldiers. Next morning he was found dead near the U.S. embassy, with lizards scuttling near his body. The soldier who shot him said he had not meant to kill. It was just that the troops wanted a bigger army...
...negotiations dragged on, Betancourt himself argued for a bigger role for COPEI. He arrived at a party meeting with a tape recorder. "I know what I'm going to say here now will prove historic," he said, and then proceeded to read the riot act. "My government would not have survived without COPEI's support. Yours will not either. So get that support." Then he left, promising to play back the tape at a future date...
...Boston (total enrollment: 93,000), which had a small boycott last June, a far bigger one-day demonstration this time pulled out well over half the city's Negro pupils - 9,000, plus 2,000 sympathetic whites (all beyond normal absences of about 9,000). Result: city and state officials agreed to talk integration...
...Bigger capital investments by many U.S. companies will indeed be one of the major consequences of the tax bill (see following story). But there will be countless other reverberations in the U.S. economy-and some of them are already being felt. An early and dramatic response took place on Wall Street, where the Dow-Jones industrial average climbed 3.10 points last week, nudging through the magic 800 mark to close at an alltime high of 800.14. For millions of U.S. workers, the first effects of the tax cut will be noticeable this week, when their paychecks will be an average...
...general manager of Chrysler Corp.'s Chrysler-Plymouth division, Philip N. Buckminster, 47, runs a bigger operation than the chief executive of many a major company. Buckminster is considered one of the fastest-rising automen in Detroit, has become the favorite troubleshooter of Chrysler President Lynn Townsend. Under Buckminster, the Chrysler-Plymouth Division is readying a racy new sports car, the Barracuda, for Spring introduction; last week the division raised its prestige with a 1-2-3 upset victory for Plymouth over Ford in the Daytona 500 stock car race. Trained as a financial analyst at Ford under Robert...