Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columnist Drew Pearson, who was close to F.D.R.'s White House, reported that Eleanor Roosevelt chanced to discover the romance "when, driving through Virginia, she saw her husband and Lucy in a parked car"-apparently in Arlington, roughly where the Pentagon now stands, in an area popular during World War I both for horseback riding and as a trysting spot...
...Natal Mercury, while the Johannesburg Star gave prominence tO THE TRIBAL WAR IN NIGERIA. In the bright and busy nation at Africa's southern tip, however, such difficulties seemed far away. Topless nighties were the talk of Cape Town. In Johannesburg, where last month's antique-car rally had drawn 69 entrants-from a 1907 Diatto-Clement to a 1938 Bugatti-the city was debating whether the miniskirt should be banned, and the ballet season began with performances by South African Stars Gary Burne and Phyllis Spira...
...industrious land. The General Motors plant at Port Elizabeth last month turned out its 750,000th car. Diamonds pour out of the big holes of De Beers near Kimberley. The busy gold mines of the Witwatersrand (Ridge of White Waters) and the Orange Free State turn out 73% of the world's supply. Not far away, in the middle of the great Vaal River coal fields, the government-owned SASOL plant turns coal into oil, the only major product in which South Africa is not self-sufficient; 18 companies are now exploring for oil in Zululand and the Karroo...
...continent. Economically he is right. What with decent paychecks (minimum daily wage for an unskilled laborer is $2.80) and easy credit, many an urban African can afford to buy imbuia wood furniture for his dining room, neat school uniforms for his children, and in some cases even a car for himself. Every year countless thousands of blacks from nearby countries flood into the republic looking for work-and the bright lights of the city life...
...once, it's hardly any wonder that Perry invokes all the voodoo-and maybe a little moisture-to keep it that way. He's got a lot of responsibilities. His wife has just had a new baby, and there's a new house "with a two-car garage, a screened back porch, two fireplaces, four bedrooms and a real red carpet in the living room. And I have my own farm, too, four acres of tobacco and six acres cleared for corn, soybeans and peanuts." That's not bad for a sharecropper...