Word: carting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believes in monarchy anymore, with the possible exception of Haile Selassie. Not even George Bernard Shaw, though he gives the king all the lines in The Apple Cart. As Shaw says in his preface, "The Apple Cart exposes the unreality of both democracy and royalty as our idealists conceive them...
...arranging severance pay for the kings in amounts ranging from $25,000 for the ex-Queen of Buganda, who stayed behind when Freddie fled, to $70,500 for the Omukama of Bunyoro. Obote has confiscated, however, most of the splendid trappings of royalty. He sent a dump truck to cart off the Omugabe of Ankole's throne, his velvet ceremonial robes, his gilt crowns and his fat royal drums of buckskin. Last week the aging, potbellied Omukama of Bunyoro watched sadly as his regalia of silken robes and black ostrich-feather headdresses were taken away to be mothballed...
...name, the book is bound to be a bestsell er. All through his adult life Author Andre Malraux has been I'homme en gage, a committed man whose activities capture the popular imagination. As a young student of Oriental archaeology, he was once jailed for trying to cart away from the Cambodian jungle some ancient Khmer statues that he admired...
...Papercraft Corp., it is Christmas in August. Last week, at the firm's modern one-story plant, some 1,000 employees worked round the clock in three shifts to produce gift-wrapping paper for the 1967 holiday season. Traveling around the premises in an electric golf cart was President Joseph M. Katz, 54. Shouting to make himself heard above the roar of the presses, through which rolled 600 miles of paper daily, Katz exulted: "You can't eliminate Santa Claus...
With this system, the passenger himself is the only one to handle his baggage. He stows it aboard a kiddy-car-sized plastic cart and picks up a claim ticket. At the check-in counter, a clerk inserts the ticket into a sensor, sending cart and luggage along a track onto the proper airplane. At his destination, the passenger again inserts his ticket into a slot, whereupon the laden cart obediently trundles to his side. Estimated average time for the loading or unloading operation: three minutes...