Word: favors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squez, court painter to Spain's proud Philip IV, was finishing a portrait of the King's daughter, the blonde, five-year-old Infanta Margarita. Around the demure princess bustled two noble maids of honor and two attendant dwarfs (one got, as a special favor, a pound of snow for each summer-day's work). A mastiff dozed on the floor, and in a mirror, Velàsquez occasionally caught sight of the King and Queen stopping to see how the sittings were progressing. Seized by new inspiration, Velàsquez ordered a huge canvas, quickly painted...
...bank cannot back because they contain individual projects that will not pay off. With the proposed new fund, the bank, for example, could finance a dam, while the IDA could finance nonself-liquidating projects needed to develop the area around the dam. One big point in IDA's favor: it would lessen the pressure on the U.S. for shaky loans or grants. It would also cool the heat on the U.S. in another way. The U.S. has often had to talk tough to a borrower after loans were granted, to force him to put his fiscal house in order...
...that he really needed the favor. Worth roughly $20 million, Hedges runs his enterprises with a profitable smoothness that gives him time to dash from one Havana club to another (he belongs to five) in a snappy Porsche, play golf, fish for marlin. He keeps a summer home in East Hampton, L.I., a Manhattan apartment, a house near some of his Cuban plants, a Havana apartment and a 215-year-old hacienda in Pinar del Rio province. His weekend place outside Havana boasts an airstrip, boathouse, skeet and trap layout, swimming pool, bar, guest cottages, servants' houses. The place...
...favor of the best and closest possible Pan-American relations," said the new ambassador last week. As a starter, Hedges, who describes himself as "married, but single'' (his third divorce is in the works), rented the finest suite in the Copacabana Palace Hotel and set out to make friends...
...befriends Montgomery Pew, a feckless but amiable young Jumble who holds a job with a government welfare bureau. Montgomery pries Johnny loose from the hardhanded white law, while Johnny returns the favor by showing his pal safe trails through the Spade jungle. The pair meet such notable Spades as Peter Pay Paul, who pushes an asthma cure as marijuana; Billy Whispers, a pimp of stature; and Ronson Lighter, whose kleptomania focuses on only one Jumble artifact...