Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fantasy (see box following page). Yet there is a slightly unreal air to Brazil this week, as carnaval dances toward its pre-Lent climax. Since the military crackdown last December, Brazilians have had to put up with a tough, moralistic, even prudish regime. While revelers are putting the final touches on their colorful fantasias, the stunning costumes that give carnaval its color, the dour government of President Arthur da Costa e Silva continues its purges and its arrests. Scores of Brazilians are in jail, and some will sit out carnaval in virtual exile, on the lonely island of Ilha Grande...
...replacement for corporate income taxes. Congress so far shows no inclination to consider such fundamental changes. In Geneva, American negotiators have been pushing for a sensible change in GATT rules to allow U.S. companies to receive export rebates based on corporate income taxes and other "direct" taxes. In his final economic message, President Johnson asked for Europe's help in revising the rules "so that they no longer give a special advantage" to Europe...
Metallic Ring. When the blockade began, scant food reserves were swiftly consumed. Luftwaffe raids on warehouses sent tons of sugar, meat and flour up in smoke. Rations were cut again and again, finally falling to half a pound of bread per day for workers and only two slices (about 150 calories) for children. Citizens grew accustomed to eating library paste, boiled leather, and bread baked with cottonseed cake, even sawdust and cellulose. Cats and dogs swiftly disappeared. Any stray horse was likely to be set upon and butchered on the hoof by starving citizens. In the final stages...
...Crimson traded basket for basket with the Lions for most of the final session, cutting the Columbia margin to one point, 53-52, on a Chris Gallagher lay up with 9:16 left. From there to the end it was a complete seesaw with neither team in complete control until the final buzzer...
...House Appropriations Committee, countered these arguments by telling startled Congressmen what they hadn't been told last year when they approved initial funds for the program: the Defense Department views the $5.5 billion system as only a first step in keeping up with an increasingly complex Chinese force. The final price tag is unknown...