Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phantom pay" of soldiers whose deaths in combat go unreported to Saigon. For $675, a well-to-do youth can buy an Interior Ministry "diploma" that certifies him as a government spy, thus exempting him from army service. A trick currently in favor with provincial chiefs is to blow up a provincial bridge, blame the Viet Cong, and win a fat construction contract from Saigon...
Royal Scandal. Nasser was dealt an even sharper blow in the Trucial States,* which lie on the Gulf side of the horn of Arabia. There, in the tiny, impoverished sheikdom of Sharja, where Britain has an R.A.F. base, Sheik Sakr bin Sultan al-Kasimi has long been the Gulf's only pro-Nasser ruler. When the Egyptian-dominated Arab League proposed a big aid program for the seven Trucial States last year, six of them turned it down at British nudging. Sheik Sakr, 39, on the other hand, joyfully accepted the offer and invited an Arab aid mission...
...bluff had been called, was simply raising the ante. As for the threat to the Common Market, no people in Europe would lose more from the breakup than France's farmers. It was hard to believe that even De Gaulle would risk such a blow to their pocket-books-particularly in the very week that he chose to set the next national election. He has until...
...still looks fit to fight his way out of a telephone booth -or most any place else. As Dempsey celebrated his 70th birthday in his Manhattan restaurant last week, they brought out a cake ablaze with a candle for each year. Jack got them all with one blow...
...network, believing that he was one of the industry's formative performers, tried to blow his valedictory* into a gala, but Jack felt otherwise. "I want to get out the easiest way possible," he decreed. "They say I'm emotional, and I am. I don't know what I'd do if I saw people around." So when Paar came on, there was no studio audience. All that could be seen was a tieless Jack and his German Shepherd, Leica, seated midway back in the taping theater...