Word: bust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President William F. Butler figures that G.N.P. will reach $582 billion in 1963 v. 1962's $554 billion, and others now feel that it may hit $585 billion. "There's an old saw," says Boston Federal Reserve Bank Economist Paul S. Anderson, "that a boom begets a bust, but it is also possible that the lack of a bust begets a boom...
Kennedy also gave a brief guided tour of his office, which features the proverbial football, an extensive exhibit of art work by his young children, a bust of Lincoln behind his desk, and on the desk a photograph of a son of Robert Kennedy starting at the White House. The photo, taken by Jackie Kennedy, was inscribed, "structure President surveys his property...
...bearded Cuban talked on for seven hours to Claude Julien. 37. foreign news chief of Paris' influential Le Monde. When Julien published the interview last week, it stirred a missile crisis all its own in Havana. Fidel might have been kidding about wanting to bust Nikita in the snoot, but he obviously felt that his Moscow comrade Khrush had played him for a double sucker last October-once when he planted the missiles in Cuba, and again when he took them out without consulting the bearded Maximum Leader in advance. "We had envisaged the possibility of asking the Soviet...
Even on the playing fields, Hassan's visit was a bust; his Moroccan army soccer team was only able to manage a tie with the Algerian squad. Next day, Hassan presented Ben Bella with a gift of a house trailer; all the guest got was a bill for staging the game-stadium rental, bus rental, and the cost of printing the programs. And when it came time to settle the hotel bill, Hassan's hosts pointedly looked the other way; by prior agreement, Hassan footed the bill for his entire no-man entourage...
Each day it will be inhabited by 17,000 people. Most of them will be whisked into the building by four electric escalators moving directly from Grand Central Terminal itself into the grandiose lobby brooded over by a bust of the founder, the late Erwin S. Wolfson. The fastest of the building's 65 elevators will rocket passengers to the top at the rate of two floors a second...