Word: dec
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Dignity. But Evita's travels in life were nothing compared to her travels in death. On the night of Dec. 22, 1955, her body vanished from Buenos Aires' central labor headquarters; it had been placed there after she died of cancer in 1952 while a glass-enclosed mausoleum was being made ready. Rumors had her body thrown into the River Plate by the regime that ousted Perón. There was one report that 25 leading citizens were each given a sealed coffin, sworn to secrecy and asked to bury it. Each of the 25 believed that...
...change that is gentled by an overwhelming nostalgia for the Spanish-American War. When he is not talking about his wife Helga, his successful milk business, or how he spent Dec. 7, 1941, arranging an abortion for his son's girl friend, he keeps drifting back to the days when he and his "bunkies" whipped the "Dago" in Cuba. But not before he overcame his cowardice in a rib ald send-up of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage. It is a ripe ad dition to the sanitized exuberance dished out by T.R. in The Rough...
...early this month, the steel industry was braced for a slack third quarter. Most big customers are still using up the steel they stockpiled as a hedge against a possible strike. Nonetheless, steelmakers, led by U.S. Steel, announced an 8% across-the-board price increase to take effect on Dec. 1. Behind the scenes, though, hard-pressed companies began seeking sales by offering discounts-urging automakers to sign orders for cold-rolled steel before the increase and take delivery afterward at current prices. Last week an open rift developed within the industry when Bethlehem Steel, the second largest producer, said...
...Nixon Administration would set as its 1971 target a $1,060 billion G.N.P., to be achieved by means of a bootstrap operation to boost public confidence (Dec. 28, 1970). TIME said that it would not work, and so far it hasn't. We also predicted that the G.N.P. would fall between $1,045 and $1,055 billion, and it looks as if it will...
...could require them to retrain in order to teach younger children. Blue-collar parents worry that the plan would throw even more jobseekers into competition for already scarce work. In fact, however, the idea of an accelerated curriculum has been endorsed by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education (TIME, Dec. 7), and is under consideration in several states, including Rhode Island and New York...