Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crimson bannerline, and it took three full-page ads just to tell readers what the surprise was: lots more of the same-a new cash giveaway game, a serialized version of Fall-Safe, and a promise of articles by nearly everyone from Adlai Stevenson to William F. Buck ley Jr. Even French Novelist Andre Maurois turned up with a sort of Gallicized "Dear Abby" column of "advice to wom en on marriage, love and how to face life's problems...
...move to censure Cuba. But lately, Goulart has been exchanging letters with President Kennedy, has had a visit from Brother Bobby, and has been successfully negotiating with the U.S. for more financial aid. Without warning, the Solidarity Congress organizers found themselves trapped, tricked, merry-go-rounded, bureaucratized, buck-passed, blind-alleyed and discriminated against by Brazilian officialdom from Goulart on down...
...Finger Lakes-daringly coed (since 1872) Cornell soon climbed to first-class status. Down the hill marched illustrious alumni, from F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. to Lawyer Arthur Dean, who now chairs the trustees. Other notables: Critic George Jean Nathan, Physicist Isidor Rabi, Authors Pearl Buck and E. B. White...
...economy; he again asked support for raising the national debt limit, cutting taxes, and running the budget at a deficit. If these measures are blocked, said Kennedy, the result would be a "downturn for the American economy as a whole." The New York Times editorialized that this "amounts to buck-passing in advance, aimed at pinning the blame on Congress for any possible recession...
...burlesque. By week's end it developed that G. Clifford Prout Sr. not only did not die in St. Louis; he did not ever live there, or anywhere. As for Junior, he turned out to be a successful writer for the Garry Moore Show. His real professional name: Buck Henry. His real real name: Buck Zuckerman...