Word: grams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special session of the Bundestag, German lawmakers last week nodded their approval of Mifrifi,* a pro gram of stern tax measures and lower government spending designed to elim inate a $16 billion budget deficit for 1968-71. Paradoxically, they also approved an extraordinary budget for a $1.3 billion public-works program. Both moves were part of an effort to boost the German economy from the recession that began last fall...
...when we requested details tor a cross-section drawing of the boat that would make features of its design graphically clear to readers from Newport to Sydney to the Isle of Wight. When Researcher Mimi Conway called at Mosbacher's office in New York to discuss the dia gram, he smilingly said, "I think I have exactly what your editors want for this." Thereupon he handed her a folder that turned out to be a promotion piece for the TIME-LIFE Books volume, Age of Exploration, containing a diagram of the Mayflower. Ultimately, though, he and his associates supplied...
...became Franklin Roosevelt's ambassador to Moscow. Relying on what she had learned from her art dealer, Lord Duveen, Madame Ambassador began acquiring her extensive collection of czarist icons and chalices when they were put on sale by the Soviet govern-ment at 50 per gram of silver content. Mrs. Post and Davies were divorced in 1955, and she subsequently married and divorced Pittsburgh Industrialist Herbert May. The names of her latest escorts (Hotel Consultant Serge Obolensky, former Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth) provoke speculation in gossip columns, but friends insist that she does not plan to marry...
William Manchester, stricken with trichinosis, enters Flower Fifth Avenue Mrs. John F. Kennedy sends him a candy-gram. After a ten-minute walking tour of South Vietnam, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara predicts the war will be over...
...small quantities is to mix them in water, soak the solution up in a handkerchief and let it dry-to be cut up later into squares, which LSD users chew. LSD is hard to track down because the compound is colorless, tasteless and odorless, and so potent that a gram, equal to one million micrograms, or 10,000 trips, could be stashed in a single cigarette. So far, illegal LSD is manufactured largely by amateurs, but potential profits represent a strong temptation for organized crime. Tougher legislation will probably make LSD scarcer and therefore more expensive...