Word: furred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...start. He kept repeating his democratic ideals and desires for economic stability. "Bolivia," he insisted, "must keep particularly close relations with the U.S." He talked about disarming both the peasant militia of Paz Estenssoro and the militant tin min ers of Leftist Juan Lechín to avoid fur ther trouble. Yet he allowed Lechín to grab control of all the country's most important unions, bowed even further by promising the unions joint control with management in running the nationalized tin mines. In the past when the miners had such a voice, they featherbedded costs...
What next? Goodbye Foxes. Last week Cassius was in Boston training for his Nov. 16 rematch with ex-Champion Sonny Liston. The tomato-red Caddy was gone, replaced by a block-long black limousine and a Muslim chauffeur who wore a fuzzy fur hat. Gone, too, were the foxes-Clay is a married man now-and most of the 25 extra pounds he had put on this summer. This time Cassius was every inch the grownup pro prizefighter, determined to prove that what happened last time was no mistake. A rock-hard 215 Ibs. ("I'll be down...
...role in Paramount's production of Moll Flanders, she allowed as how she was "very flattered." However, she is already earning $75,000 a year, and "for $6 a week I get a luxury flat in Moscow and a beautiful country cottage. I have my car, my three fur coats, and I can travel the world whenever I want. The only thing that would attract me to Hollywood," she added demurely, hitching up her skirt for photographers like any Western starlet, "would be a really interesting part...
George Brown, 50, Minister of Economic Affairs. The son of a truck driver, he began his political career at the age of eight by distributing Labor leaflets, put in a few years as a clerk and fur salesman before he turned to a career in trade unions and the Labor Party. He served as deputy leader under Wilson, his former rival for the top job. Easily emotional, Brown has been known to embarrass his colleagues and the public; Britons have not forgotten his display on television after the murder of John F. Kennedy, when tearfully he kept calling the dead...
...convinced that expansion would have been much greater without the federal levy. Some industries claim to have been badly hit by the excise. It gets chief blame for the fact that more than 100 leather and luggage manufacturers have gone out of business since 1947 and that the fur industry has suffered a drop in union workers from 13,000 to 7,000 since 1946. Businessmen also complain that collecting the taxes requires extra time and money for which they are not reimbursed: the expense can run from $1 a day for small retailers to the $5,000,000 that...