Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gloom, Not Doom. "We are still thinking in terms of our individual nations and not of the common benefits," complained a Venezuelan official after the conference finally broke up. Chile's Foreign Minister Gabriel Valdés Subercaseaux decried the "exaggerated, abusive" use of the veto, and Ecuador's delegate to Asunción, Julio Prado Vallejo, said flatly that the conference demonstrated "the unacceptability of new compromises...
...wing intellectual he went to China in 1925 to serve as an aide to Mikhail Borodin, the Russian agent whose job was to subvert Sun Yat-sen's Kuomintang for the Communists. That adventure was distilled in an epic novel entitled Man's Fate. When civil war broke out in Spain, Malraux signed on as a Loyalist air officer and wrote another novel based on personal experience, Man's Hope. In World War II he was a hero in the French maquis...
...third round, Arnold Palmer had to play head-to-head with Nicklaus; Jack shot a 65 to Palmer's 67. On the last day, it was Dan Sikes's turn. For 14 holes he held his own; then he broke. On the par-four 15th, he drove into the rough and took a bogey. Nicklaus coolly collected his par. Finishing with a 16-under-par 272, one stroke ahead of Sikes, Jack picked up a check for $50,000 that boosted his official 1967 earnings to $156,748 and broke his own two-year-old season record...
...weeks ago, he tied into an even bigger fish off Montauk, N.Y. "I fought him for 5¾ hours," says Margulies, "before the reel jammed and the line finally broke. By the time it was over, the pressure on my leather shoulder harness had cut my shoulders and rib cage to ribbons, and I was covered with blood." At least he doesn't have to live with the experience of New York Attorney Frank Bramm, who connected off Montauk. Bramm battled the fish for two hours, skillfully thwarting his every stratagem. At last he maneuvered him to within...
...Detroit slums, quit school in the eleventh grade because he was interested only in music and boxing. As a professional featherweight, he won ten of 14 bouts, seven on knockouts, but got discouraged because he "never fought anybody worthwhile." After Army service, he opened a record shop and went broke, but continued writing and recording songs at his own expense. In 1959, Way Over There sold 60,000 copies. Encouraged, Gordy borrowed $700 from his family and launched Motown in a seedy frame house on Detroit's Grand Boulevard, where his offices and studios now sprawl through eight buildings...