Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prices two weeks ago by 10% to 15%-or about 150 to 300 for each pair of shoes-and will cut further as production rises. Corfam shoes now sell for just about the same price as comparable leather shoes. Several of Du Pont's archcompetitors are trying to crack the Corfam formula. Secretly and intently Union Carbide, B.F. Goodrich, US Rubber and other companies are developing their own synthetics for the changing shoe industry...
Died. Lieut. General Sir Frederick A. M. Browning, 68, dashing British war hero and husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier, who in World War II organized the crack Red Devils paratroop division, then led them in their valiant but disastrous attempt to seize and hold the Arnhem bridgehead in 1944, after the war served as the royal household's controller and treasurer until his retirement in 1959; of a heart attack; in Cornwall, England...
Perkins emphasized that the tutors were divided on the question of shifting the deadline. While some reasoned that a longer post-thesis period would give seniors "a better crack at the generals" given in early May, others felt that "shorter time for the thesis would hurt the thesis...
...sense, Tshombe is running alone. Except for President Joseph Kasavubu, who would hardly exchange the presidency for the insecure job of Premier, no other Congolese politician can project himself as a national figure. Two moderate regional leaders, Justin Bomboko and Elder Statesman Jean Bolikango, might like a crack at the premiership, but experts believe neither has enough votes to come close, and both will probably join a post-election coalition government with Tshombe...
With his usual compulsive need for self-abasement, Mailer explains what had happened. Partly, he reports, his near crack-up occurred because he had drunk too much. But the largest and (if this were not Mailer talking) least believable reason was that he had opposed Conservative William Buckley in a formal public debate on the night before the fight. Mailer had prepared seriously for the debate, he says, and it was clear that he had won. Friends said so. Then came the next day's New York Times, which reported the debate frivolously and passed the result...