Word: bin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author's fine imagination is for people. Her characters, the reader feels with approval, are thought up, not noted down. Her menagerie is too various to be a mere assemblage from the parts-bin of relatives' tics and friends' twitches. The best of her originals are members of the remarkable Minot family (Mrs. Fay Dines on Zebra), a Hudson River clan that has subsisted for 200 years on no income at all. The Minots live by dining out, and walk safely the precarious line between guesthood and sycophancy by balancing good fellowship with mordant truth telling...
Strangely, it is one small bin within the towering silo of the farm mess that has so far proved the most controversial in the Breeding-Dole race. Breeding strongly backs an Administration plan for exporting wheat to Japan; since June, Japan has bought more than 3,000,000 bushels of Kansas wheat. But the Administration plan, for reasons not quite clear, also requires storing that exportable wheat in California, rather than Kansas. Breeding's stand is very attractive to Kansas wheat growers. It enrages Kansas' wheat storage men, who seem likely to lose a lot of business...
...afternoon champagne. He watches her youthful exuberance and realizes that he's too old to love. His weakness is dramatized in a confrontation scene with his pathological daughter in which she demands more money and chides him for neglecting his wife, who has been in the looney bin for twenty-three years. Somewhere in the course of the day, Doris is fired...
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR OPEN FORUM: The last International Seminar Open Forum will be held this Wednesday in Allston Burr B at 8 p.m. The theme of this program is "Problems of East Asia." The members of the panel are Hamdan bin Sheikh Tahir, of Malay, member of the Ministry of Education in Kuala Lumpur; Masaya Miyoshi, of Japan, member of the Research Department, Federation of Economic Organizations, Tokyo; and Joonkyu Park of Korea, writer and lecturer and former member of the National Assembly, Following the forum the audience is invited to a reception at 6 Divinity Avenue...
...Continental Air Lines Boeing 707 was blown up by dynamite in mid-air near the Iowa-Missouri border last May 22 (45 dead). Said CAB: "All the evidence leads logically to the conclusion that a dynamite device was placed in the used-towel bin of the right rear lavatory with the express intent to destroy the aircraft. "The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that before the flight, Victim Thomas G. Doty, 34, who faced prosecution for armed robbery, bought some dynamite and $275,000 worth of life insurance payable to his wife...