Word: du
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dead Chicks. To protest such inequities, demonstrators from Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges massed in Brussels. Marching ten abreast down the Avenue du Midi, some of them toting banners with the absurd slogan "Flemish Doctors for Flemish Patients," they ran smack into phalanxes of waiting Walloons, and the riot was on. When one Flemish tough tossed a "thunderflash"-a beer can filled with gunpowder-into the crowd, 4,000 steel-helmeted riot police who had been poised just off the boulevard wheeled into action...
...horsemen to be the best thoroughbred since Man o' War: the $108,900 Jockey Club Gold Cup at New York's Belmont Park, for an unprecedented third year in a row. Ridden by Jockey Ismael Valenzuela, who never had to use his whip, Mrs. Richard C. du Pont's five-year-old gelding breezed to an easy ten-length victory, covered the two miles in 3 min. 19-4/5 sec.-breaking Nashua's track record. Kelso's $70,785 winner's purse ran his lifetime earnings to $938,380-sixth highest total...
...Million Cancellation. There has been more coming than going. Already in the foundation stage are the buildings of the Bell System, Du Pont. Eastman Kodak, Electric Power & Light. Ford. Festival of Gas, IBM, General Motors, Sinclair Oil, Travelers Insurance, and the heliport. The international exhibitors are somewhat farther behind; 65 foreign exhibitors have declared their "intent" to be present. Of these, at least 35 have signed up for specific space, 17 have submitted designs. and two - Hong Kong and Vatican City* - have started test borings. Altogether, 83% of international area space has been allocated, 71% of the industrial area...
...largest private shipowner, one of its biggest brewers, a major power in banking and insurance, and boss, in all, of more than 100 companies. Next week the baking powder baron is due in New York to inspect the Columbus Lines (18 cargo ships), which he bought from Du Pont five years...
...levied two quid For the terrible thing that he did, But one M.P.'s quibble Was "What's good for Dame Sybil Must be good for each Sark invalid." Dame Sybil disdained his appeals, Only she could have motorized wheels. Her parliament said Sure To her droit du seigneur, No matter how other folk feels. ∙∙∙ With classic British nonchalance. Actor James Mason, 53. and his estranged wife Pamela, 44, launched a laconic legal battle in a Santa Monica court to divvy up the spoils of their marriage. Pamela demanded an allowance...