Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role in mineral exploration, the projectiles may be used to find water, to place deep-sea anchors, and to bury radioactive fuels re-entering the atmosphere after the flights of nuclear rockets. Shot from unmanned spacecraft orbiting distant planets, one Sandia scientist proposes, the projectile probes could even help determine if there are water tables beneath the surface of Mars and Venus...
Vatentino was in New York to help Lord & Taylor launch a collection of 22 pieces copied from his spring and summer show. The lift-off was phenomenal. Some of the originals in fact, never made it to the show; Mrs. Alan Jay Lerner made off with a $1,000 caped white dress with a jeweled belt before it hit the runway. In five days the store sold copies of more than 400 dresses ($90 to $175) and 300 coats ($160 to $495), plus hundreds of shoes and berets. Favorite accessory: a six-foot-long floating Isadora Duncan sea of bias...
Among other specific suggestions in the final consensus report: - >A strong effort must be made to attract many more members of minority groups into the practice of law. Special help and encouragement is needed to help interested young men and women "overcome barriers imposed by poverty and cultural differences...
...powerful as the U.S. must prepare to give up some of their economic sovereignty. They will have to allow foreign technocrats a voice in their economic councils. Having sapped its international financial strength, the U.S. cannot hold the wobbly monetary structure together by itself. It needs Europe's help, and in return must accept some of the measures of discipline that Europe demands, unpalatable though that idea may seem. As an alternative, the U.S. could at worst retreat into economic isolationism and perhaps maintain a reasonable living standard. At best, the gold crisis could bring the dawn...
...returned.) Their son Louis, 25, is a student in Paris. Schweitzer finds Washington social life a bore, likes to putter in his garden, walk with his family in his spare time. He has become a fan of hamburgers, motels and dry martinis. At home, he drinks California wine ("to help with your balance of payments"); at IMF's 13-story office compound two blocks from the White House, he imbibes French vintages ("be cause the cost won't show on your payments accounts...