Word: formal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...barely two weeks after the Conference ministers returned to their capitals, Kenya and Somalia announced resumption of trade before the formal talks had even begun. Somalia had been experiencing difficulties finding outlets for its beef, and when the American packing firm, "Ward Foods," agreed to act as agents for the Somalia Government's cattle transactions with Kenya, the 16-month-old trade boycott came to an end. News of the resumed trade was released by Bruce Mckenzie, Kenya's minister for Agriculture, who said in Nairobi that the decision was in the spirit of Harambee (pulling together, a Kenyan national...
...subject of devaluation began to be furtively bruited about among small groups of Wilson's ministers for the next several days, but it was not taken up at a formal Cabinet meeting until last Thursday. At the meeting the government made its decision to devalue...
...never a junkie, no matter what the bumper stickers said, but it does seem that she will soon become a divorcee. Confirming longstanding rumors, Julie Andrews, 32, filed suit in Santa Monica, Calif., for divorce from English Stage Designer Tony Walton, 33, her husband since 1959. In a formal statement more notable for brevity than syntax, Julie explained that "the varying demands of our careers have kept Tony and I apart, placing obvious strains upon our marriage." Another obvious strain, Director (The Pink Panther) Blake Edwards, 45, has recently acquired his own divorce, and will presumably be at hand when...
...Formal Entry. As winner of the basic-research award, jurors chose Dr. Bernard B. Brodie, 58, chief of the chemical pharmacology laboratory at the National Heart Institute in Bethesda, Md., whose work has had the effect of upgrading the usefulness of animals as test patients for new drugs. Because different animal species utilize drugs at vastly unequal rates, scientists could apply experimental lab animal results to human patients only in limited ways. But Brodie found that if dosages were gauged to produce comparable levels in the blood plasma, there was less variation in the effects...
Even more significant than CORE'S threat was the formal organization in Dallas this month of the National Committee of Negro Churchmen, composed of 300 members from twelve Protestant denominations. Its chief founder, the Rev. Benjamin F. Payton, president of South Carolina's Baptist Benedict College, concedes that U.S. churches have generally demanded equal justice for Negroes, and that white clergymen have been at the forefront of civil rights demonstrations. Nevertheless, says Payton, "I don't think we have yet the concrete actions that clearly suggest that the churches are moving to remedy the great evil...