Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite academic arguments about the infeasibility of modern democracy, citizens still vote for their president and representatives in Congress. And if these elections are to have any meaning in terms of the issue facing the nation, the press must perform the task of educating an uninterested, ill-equipped, distracted electorate...
...blood is beginning to get thin. Partly because of Hurricane Flora and partly because of pitiful mismanagement, Cuban sugar production this year is estimated at 3,300,000 tons, about half what it was in pre-Castro years. Yet Castro has committed more sugar (at bargain prices he can ill afford) to his Communist partners, until he now owes them more than he produces. Faced with this kind of debacle, Cuba last week did an astonishing thing for the world's biggest sugar-cane producer. It went into the world market to buy sugar to meet its Iron Curtain...
...Ill lay: New York World's Fair President Robert Moses, 75, in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital, "doing exceptionally well" after prostatic surgery; U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin Reischauer, 53, in Honolulu's U.S. Army Tripler General Hospital with a "presumptive diagnosis" of hepatitis, which hospital officials say developed independent of the nearly healed thigh wound inflicted last March by a deranged Japanese youth; British Spy Greville Wynne, 45, in London's Gordon Hospital "in an excitable and disturbed mental state" as a result of his 17-month Communist imprisonment...
...lushest of fabrics, range in length from wrist-short to shoulder-high and in price from $1 (nylon) to $145 (mink-cuffed French glace kid), the richest selection is scarcely splendid enough to make up for the bother. For one thing, women determined to look smart but who feel ill at ease with their hands encased will strip their gloves off at the earliest opportunity and spend the rest of the party looking for a ledge to lodge the gloves on; they generally end up wadding them into an overstuffed purse...
...William L. Bresnahan Jr., 31, is a dairy distributor, a partner with Joe Saker and his brother John E. Saker Jr., 30, in a 14-horse stable. Fair Acres Farm in Freehold, N.J. The Saker brothers also own a franchise in a supermarket chain. Their father, described as too ill and elderly to make the trip, owns the fifth share in the winning ticket. The sixth partner? Bresnahan's father, also too ill and elderly to make the trip. The seventh? His name was not immediately disclosed...