Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local game: co tuong, a variant of chess that uses "elephants, cannon and 14th century infantry tactics." Corson himself took on the village champion, managed to achieve a tie. "The game gave us our breakthrough in overcoming the reserve of the people," he says. "Next step was how to help them make a buck...
...ever seen a public official treated," winced one guest. The next speaker might have faced sudden death if he'd gone into overtime. "My name is Hubert Horatio Humphrey," grinned the Vice President. " 'H,' " he explained, as the Bronx cheers erupted, "is for HELP...
...Feilding, who believes that "the churches can no longer take for granted a respectful hearing for anything whatever in their traditions," the changes can come none too soon. "How can pastoral imagery and a prescientific world-view," he says, "be of help to the millions in teeming cities alternately threatened with nuclear war and prom-ised life of unlimited leisure in an automated world? Theological education isolated from those who ask such ques-tions is useless...
...steel capsule and for liquid nitrogen to keep his body frozen at about 200° below zero centigrade. When Bedford died on Jan. 12, his physician, Dr. B. Renault Able, began to pack the body in ice. Members of the Cryonics Society of California arrived to help. They spent eight hours, sending out periodically for more ice, getting the body frozen solid. They used artificial respiration and external heart massage to protect the brain from oxygen-loss damage until it was frozen, drained out the blood and replaced it with antifreeze solutions. Then Professor Bedford's icy body...
...dollars on deposit in foreign banks-poured back into the U.S. last year. If falling U.S. rates reverse that flow, it would deepen the already worrisome U.S. balance of payments deficit, putting further strains on the dollar abroad. Similarly, the British dared only a cautious cut in rates to help stagnating industry lest a bigger step put new pressure on the pound. The Chequers "miniSummit" produced a mere gentleman's agreement, but it recognized as never before the growing interdependence of the economies of the U.S. and Europe, and so of the need for policies that mesh...