Word: da
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRESIDENTE. Johnson and López Mateos made an entrance worthy of Auntie Mame in a helicopter, followed by Harry Truman and Mister Sam in another, smaller helicopter. It was, according to a Dallas reporter, "one of the most dramatic outdoor shows since they produced Aïda with live elephants...
Sign of the Cross. Eight months after his inauguration, Congress passed a law setting up the Companhia Urbanizadora da Nova Capital do Brasil (Novacap) to build the city. Says Kubitschek: "Nobody thought I could or would do it." Kubitschek could. And Brazil's great architects caught his enthusiasm...
Mysterious West. In Milwaukee, when Marquette University Student Jane da Silva, a native of Bombay, India, picked up her saris at the cleaners, her bill read: -'Two tablecloths...
...threw slops from fifth-floor bedchambers with the cry "Gardy-loo!" (from the French gardez I'eau, or watch out for the water), Europe's sanitary arrangements consisted of ordure without decorum. The first British patent for a water closet was not taken out until 1775, although da Vinci had designed one nearly three centuries earlier...
...which he writes articles on the tiny models of locomotives, generators, planes, and assorted engines he himself designs. At the drop of a soldering iron or the wrong twist of a vise, like-minded hobbyists from Havana to Hong Kong lay their problems on the workbench of this toolroom Da Vinci. Patiently, Keith answers each letter. Just as patiently, he seals a little copper box of his sister's "trinkets" in the ballasting of his brother-in-law's yacht, and agrees to take care of the couple's ten-year-old daughter Janice while the pair...