Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special brand of fortitude. Last week, as his vice-presidential safari winged wearily across Africa from mishap to minor disaster, the indefatigable Humphrey averaged less than four hours' sleep a night and, seemingly impervious to a steam-heated climate, came up triumphantly talking at each stop. Africans heard his voice even as he flew overhead in Air Force Two. To soothe nations miffed because they were left out of his tour, Humphrey beamed down radio greetings from...
Prince Philip sent a telegram: "It was the best news I've heard." Prime Minister Harold Wilson added congratulations, and all three British political parties endorsed the girls' move. Britain's new poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis (see following story) wrote a tribute. BBC-TV featured the girls on its major news program, and two London ad agencies bought full pages in the Times of London to hail their spirit. London's Financial Times praised the plan as a way to remedy Britain's economic weakness. A printing firm in Lincolnshire began turning...
...evidence Lowenstein gathered he later presented before a committee of the UN General Assembly. One top UN official called the 3 a.m. address before the committee the finest he had ever heard in his long stay at the UN. The testimony he presented became the basis for the World Court case against South Africa for its violation of the Southwest African mandate...
Everyone has heard about balance-of-payments deficits - the amount by which a country's outgo exceeds its in come in foreign trade and international finance. Rarely mentioned is the pleasanter side: balance-of-payments surpluses. Yet they exist, cropping up in highly unexpected places, sometimes for unique reasons. The Irish Republic last year enjoyed its first surplus - about $6,000,000- since 1961, thanks greatly to rising exports of textiles, food, refined petroleum and metal ores. Impoverished Tanzania achieved a $28 million payments surplus in 1966, despite its per capita annual income of about $65, because administrative bottlenecks...
...found my intuition had not failed me as I listened to Inland's chief minister speak. L heard him deny that he had ever agreed to a conference, and I waited with loathing while he announced his intention of continuing...