Word: carly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delegation lives frugally. The male members sleep two to a bedroom. The only servant is a Vietnamese resident of Paris who cooks traditional native dishes. A handyman rakes the leaves. Madame Binh managed a couple of shopping tours and purchased a $70 full-length coat and a $40 car coat as protection against the Paris winter. She also bought a pair of gloves, two Vietnamese tunics-and some perfume detected to be Chanel...
...women who have received heart transplants and apparently beaten the prevailing fifty-fifty odds of survival, all the technical questions are of little concern. Blaiberg drives his car, drinks his beer, eats heartily and writes his autobiography. In Paris, Père Boulogne uses his hospital room, after seven months, to celebrate his private Mass and work on his book on St. Thomas Aquinas. DeBakey's patient, William C. Carroll, plays pitch-and-putt golf in Arizona. A Shumway patient, Mrs. Virginia Asche, is at home and doing her own housework three months after the transplant...
...flying instructor. Until he was forced to abandon it because of his time-consuming space training, Anders owned a Cessna 172 and flew it every time he got a chance. Unusually conscientious, he once won a good-driver's award after an Albuquerque policeman saw him stop his car, remove a cinder block from a crowded highway and drive...
...Volkswagen, manufactured in Sāo Paulo, has long been Brazil's most popular car, but the automaniacal middle class is already trading up. At this year's show, Volkswagen introduced a four-door 1600 model sedan that will sell for $3,733 v. $2,666 for "the beetle." Similarly, General Motors showed off the Opala, its first made-in-Brazil sedan, a cross between the U.S. Chevy Nova and the German Opel. Depending on the model, it will sell for $4,250 to $4.800-about twice as much as a similar car made in the U.S., where...
...boom has brought problems along with progress. Petrobras, the state oil company, has long hoped to supply all of Brazil's petroleum from domestic wells. But the rising statistics of auto ownership obliges Brazil to import about 50% of its annual supply. The $260 million oil bill that car drivers run up more than offsets the savings on auto imports. As such, it is a primary factor in the country's painful balance-of-payments deficit...