Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dime a Day. The Viet Cong take advantage of the confusion to infiltrate their own agents into the centers. To head them off, each incoming villager is required to fill out detailed entrance papers and is then interviewed by a panel of refugees from his home area before being granted final admittance. Once inside, he is given rudimentary housing and a mere 10? a day to buy food and clothing from local merchants. "It's the best we can do at present. It's just enough for living," says a Vietnamese official...
...just blind: he was the Blindest. He didn't even have to roll his eyes to show he was blinder than anybody. Somebody had left his irises out. 'Get him contact lenses,' I advised, and gave her a nickel. I would have made it a dime but I didn't want to corrupt her." Parts of this book appeared first in Cavalier, Dial, Dude and Gent...
...Star Monday that "after Adlal Stevenson's funeral service last Friday at the National Cathedral, (Galbraith) proposed to the President that what was needed at the U.N. was 'someone who knows the mood of the American people, and someone with standing in the United States.' Diplomatic experts are a dime a dozen, he said...
...family, Rubi smoked a cigarette all through the ceremony in Paris (Doris provided the ring), but the marriage lasted only 13 months. Doris was, as he said, "extremely generous," and he went on to become corespondent in two society divorce suits and, in 1953, Husband No. 5 of Dime Store Heiress Barbara Hutton. Babs and Rubi flew aboard a chartered Super Constellation from Manhattan to Palm Beach to honeymoon in the 14-room villa of the Maharajah of Baroda. Alas, Rubi disappeared the next day, turned up some time later aboard a yacht in the Caribbean, where, he explained...
...stations and restaurants. The profits are enough to give even the surliest gangster an amphetamine lift: he can buy the tablets wholesale for $1 a thousand or less, and resell them at $30 to $50 a thousand, while the illicit retailer sells them at a nickel or a dime apiece and takes in from $50 to $100 a thousand...