Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tipping Scales. Even without the Congo, the U.N. was in a troubled time. The 16 new African members, besides tipping the weight of the Assembly toward the neutralists, wanted a bigger role in the Security Council, the committees, and the Secretariat as well. "And they don't even have enough trained people to run their own countries," griped one Secretariat oldtimer. This week Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah arrives in Manhattan to advance his pet scheme that an "all-Africa command" run the U.N. show in the Congo...
Exotic Menu. The ordeal over, Elizabeth and Philip recessed for lunch along the Narayani River. The exotic menu: black partridge, florican crane, wild boar shashlik, shredded venison curry. Then they went after bigger game: a female rhinoceros, spotted plodding through the jungle, calf in tow. Prized by poachers (who grind the horns into a powder that is valued as an alleged aphrodisiac), the one-horned rhino has almost disappeared from Nepal. But Marksman Home was not to be denied. With the help again of Bonham Carter and Adeane, he quickly dispatched the lumbering beast, left its calf to fend...
...they had a story to tell. As progress chuffed and shrieked across the West over newly laid railroad tracks, Remington explained what that story was. "I knew," he wrote, "that the wild riders and vacant land were about to vanish forever, and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. I began to try to record some facts around me, and the more I looked, the more the panorama unfolded...
...BIGGER VOLKSWAGEN will go on sale next fall. The car, which resembles U.S. compacts, is 6 in. longer overall than the current Volkswagen, will have a larger, air-cooled, four-cylinder rear engine, come in station-wagon and two-door models. Volkswagen says it will not be sold in the U.S. Sedan price in Germany: $1,600 v. $1,150 for the current model...
Nothing that "there were many bigger boys at GWU and UVa.," Feula said yesterday that he did perceive a strong sense of desire and willingness to work in the boys whom he has met. "Desire's a big word in my book" the sturdy 5 ft., 10 in., 215-pounder said, adding, "With a willingness to work, you can accomplish an awful...