Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member and chief overseer of Russia's chemical and light industries, was elevated to alternate Presidium membership. A dandy with high-piled hair and a low-keyed manner, Demichev is a chemical engineer by training, shared with Kosygin the responsibility for developing the consumer-goods industry, which Khrushchev chose to emphasize late in his career. Demichev's promotion is an indication of the continued importance Moscow's new regime attaches to chemicals and consumer goods, no heavy-industry "metal eater" was promoted...
...this year. The board decided to make the Post a biweekly, effective with the first week in January, hoping thereby to cut losses drastically. The decision will also cause the layoff of 250 employees at Curtis' Lock Haven, Pa., papermaking plant. Perhaps as a further economy, the board chose not to replace the two rebel leaders, Editor in Chief Clay Blair Jr. and Marvin D. Kantor, head of the magazine division, whose resignations were demanded last month...
...series opened with Oscar W. Underwood, the Alabama Senator who could have stayed in the running for nomination in the 1924 Democratic Convention but chose to push for a plank condemning the Ku Klux Klan, thus ruining his chances and subsequently losing his seat in the Senate and his whole political career...
...Ford chose to have the operation done by famed Cardiovascular Surgeon Denton A. Cooley at Houston's St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital. Last week, with Schulman assisting, Cooley made a 51-in. incision under Ford's left armpit into the chest. The surgeon then separated Ford's ribs, and collapsed a portion of lung to expose a chain of nerves running along the backbone like a string of far-apart beads. About four inches of the nerves were removed, and the incision closed. The entire operation took barely 90 minutes...
...logical choice to design the site. Kennedy idolized his heroics as a Stanford University football hero and with his art adviser Wil liam Walton, picked him to renovate Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Square. "This may be the only monument we leave," said Kennedy. His widow chose Warnecke to leave one more...