Word: brands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TRINIDAD. In this busy, commercial island off the coast of Venezuela, the brand-new, air-conditioned Trinidad Hilton, completed last summer, can count on traveling businessmen and conventions as well as tourists to keep its 261 rooms filled (rates: $20 to $37). Trinidad might be considered the Salzburg of the Caribbean-being the birthplace of calypso and the ubiquitous steel band. Its other claim to fame: the factory from which Angostura bitters sprays upon the civilized world...
...FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for, as we skim our lynx-eyes over every other page--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, 'son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading: and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be Specific;" etc.? They mean it. The illustrations needn...
Aside from such quicker-than-the-eye "economies," the new budget proposes to spend not less but more for those "other functions." It even requests funds for some brand-new programs, notably $60 million to establish a National Service Corps (the so-called Domestic Peace Corps) to "strengthen the volunteer spirit in the provision of social services in our local communities...
Better Than Jewels. In 1958, Reynolds went even further. He impulsively set up $6,000,000 in trust funds for Muriel; less impulsively, he made them revokable. For Christmas, he found a gift for the girl who had everything: a brand-new, $45,000 checking account...
Ninety-two brand new blue, white, and gold MTA cars will be in operation by May 22. Purchased for some $10 million, they will replace 135 cars now in service...