Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their often fiery involvement, La Callas sometimes occupied a suite in Monte Carlo's L'Hermitage hotel, near Onassis' apartment and offices; a tunnel connected the two. Though Callas was most frequently photographed aboard the yacht, it had been Tina who inspired "Telis," as his friends call him,* to buy the Canadian frigate Stormont in 1954 and convert it to a yacht, which he named for his daughter Christina...
...Nixon's campaign organization appears susceptible to the much feared Dewey Syndrome of overconfidence. Indeed, the word from Biscayne Bay was to push even harder in what Nixon calls "Operation Extra Effort" or a "three-week blitz." Placing unprecedented emphasis on electronic campaigning, Nixon will buy ten quarter hours of network radio, take an hour of prime-time TV for a rally at Madison Square Garden Oct. 31, and purchase four full hours of prime time for a TV telethon from Los Angeles on election eve (two hours for the East, two for the West...
...wear clothes. At 46, fatigued by the efforts that have kept him far ahead of other designers, Rudi Gernreich last week announced that he was taking a year off in order to refresh himself. Says Gernreich, who championed the new attitude all along: "I feel that a woman must buy the basics from a boutique or designer, and then be able to do what she wants with scarves and chains. Women want to involve themselves with their clothes...
Working people are expected to become heavy patrons of the system because they feel so much more at home in Britain's 23,000 post offices than in its 5,000 banking outlets. Britons commonly go to the post office to make deposits in postal savings accounts and buy money orders for such things as bets in the soccer pools...
...resurgence has been the government's decision to build up defense industries in order to spend more of the military budget inside Israel's own borders. Says Moshe Kashti, Director General of the Defense Ministry and author of the plowshares-into-swords program: "We were buying planes in France and making shirts at home. It seemed logical to make the planes at home and buy the shirts in France...