Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Chicago, told newsmen: "Stevie tried awfully hard because my son was such a wonderful boy -not because he was my son but because he was Stevie." Softly, he added: "We thought he would have been a tremendous and outstanding man, but we were not privileged to see him grow into manhood. Stevie was a real fellow...
...nose an inch or two lower in the dirt on his next meeting with father. Haile Selassie made it scornfully clear that he considered Asfa Wassan only a dupe of others, "acting under coercion." The seeds of unrest among the educated minority of Ethiopians were still there and would grow. But it would take a stronger man than Asfa Wassan to snatch power from the little Lion of Judah...
...GOOD LIGHT, by Karl Bjarnhof. A sequel to the blind Danish author's autobiographical novel of boyhood (The Stars Grow Pale) that is every bit as good as the first. The walls imposed by sightlessness and the desperate efforts to break through to contact with the life of the seeing are described with candor and beauty, without sentimentality or self-pity...
...recession, said Schultze, was too much tightening of credit by the Federal Reserve Board, and the Government's attempt to "budget for an overly large surplus." "If these restraints were relaxed," added Joseph Pechman of the Brookings Institution, "I would have little doubt that the economy would grow faster and that this growth would be interrupted less frequently by periodic recession." Both Schultze and Pechman recommended more Government spending or ;a tax reduction-or both-as anti-recessionary measures...
Dried Fish. This is just the beginning of the profits he intends to wrest from the jungle. Next he plans to buy another 1,200,000 acres of nearby land and clear enough so he can grow more cane and build a refinery to supply the sugar needs of the whole territory. After that he hopes to build a plant to dry fish caught in the Rio Madeira, sell them for 20? to 30? for 2.2 Ibs. in the Amazon basin to replace the imported dried codfish that sells for $1. Furthermore, the rubber and Brazil nut trees soon will...