Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation crept back from depression's bottom, business improved at the drugstore, and Humphrey found time for simple pleasures. At a dance in the Elks' Hall, he met Muriel Buck, a pretty Huron College student. Muriel began eating her lunch at the drugstore ("I could throw a wicked sandwich together," says Humphrey), and after two years Hubert proposed. In the evenings, in their three-room bungalow, Hubert told Muriel of his restlessness, of his desire to finish his education and to get into the political swim. Finally, at his wife's urging and with his father...
...Loving Care." Furthermore, he said, in a passage reminiscent of the Pentagon's "bigger bang for a buck," Khrushchev said that his proposals would save the government $1.6 billion, though "we shan't save rubles at the risk of our peoples' lives." Demobilized troops would also provide manpower in factories and down on the farm ("We must treat these comrades with loving care so that they will feel comfortable in the new working collectives...
Acting in Italy as the representative of University Professor Paul H. Buck, chairman of the special committee on I Tatti, Gilmore will be expected to explore only "the most preliminary considerations" necessary to work out a program and budget for the proposed center. His findings will be submitted directly to the committee, which will in turn prepare a report for the Corporation...
spokesman, will doubtless pursue a subdued rags v. riches campaign against his friend Jack Kennedy. Married to Muriel ("Bucky") Buck, his college sweetheart, he is the father of four children. "I set my aim on Congress," he wrote his wife years ago, after his first trip to Washington. "Don't laugh...
...room clubhouse, formerly the British-owned Mawingo Hotel, overlooks a heated, kidney-shaped swimming pool and some of the most magnificent scenery in Africa. There are Turkish baths, massage parlors, hairdressing salons, and big freezing rooms in case anyone leaves the amenities long enough to shoot a buck or gazelle. Inside, the club is alive with jungle plants and palm trees; the entrance to the bars and wine vaults are framed by hedges of African spears. Each room has its own bath and fireplace. A special club airplane is provided for anyone in a hurry, and a stretch...