Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question about the loyalties of the national police. Paz Estenssoro created the police as his private political militia and as a counterweight to the military. Only Paz's abrupt departure prevented a bitter showdown between the police and the regular army; ever since, Paz's boys in green have ached to avenge him. This month when the army turned up two caches of machine guns, rifles and ammunition buried under police barracks in La Paz, Barrientos decided to rid himself once and for all of both the cops and a score of other pro-Paz cockleburs...
...fair to them, The Wizard of Oz really is a horror story, with this grackle-voiced, green-skinned, chin-warted apparition hurling fire from rooftops, skywriting ominously with a flaming broom, or saying: "Now, my beauties, something with poison in it. Heh! Heh! Heh!" Hearing that, one child remembered hopefully, if a bit inexactly, that "last year Dorothy and the Wizard poured hot water on her and she melted." The Wicked Witch will melt again this year, but not from the children's memory. Into bed they will crawl singing "Ding, dong, the Witch is dead," only to stop...
Pink? No, Green. Exclusive of benefits, of course. Like the retirement plan that guarantees Namath $5,000 a year for life after his playing career ends-if it ever begins. Namath has a bad knee; he reinjured it practicing for the Orange Bowl, and it will take an operation to correct it. Werblin is springing for that too. And just to make sure Joe can transport all that money to the bank, Sonny threw in a Lincoln Continental. Reporters naturally inquired about the color. "Pink?" they asked. Uh, uh. "Jet green," said Namath smartly, and went charging on down...
...keep his franchise. "There aren't 40 players in college ball worth fighting over," insisted one pro scout, but Florida State End Fred Biletnikoff pried enough ($150,000) out of the Oakland Raiders to rent his school's football stadium to get married in. Sometimes the green left grass stains. Georgia Tackle Jim Wilson signed an $8,000 contract with the A.F.L.'s Boston Patriots last August, another for $75,000 with the N.F.L.'s San Francisco 49ers last month. In between he some how forgot to tell his coach that...
...play left the U.S. little choice. Because the U.S. is dead set against devaluation, revision of the cover law has long been urged by the Treasury and some top U.S. bankers. Now the Administration hopes to get Congress to keep the 25% cover on the $35 billion worth of green dollars in circulation, but remove it from the $20 billion in deposits in the Federal Reserve system. That would free $5 billion in gold for the U.S. to meet any claims against the dollar...