Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Videla as a playboy. They made pointed remarks about his summer custom of riding a bicycle in shorts, sniggered discreetly when he tumbled into the river while boating. But last week the tune changed. Even rightist papers ran friendly stories, and printed such folksy notes as an item regarding his visit to the movies with his handsome, blonde wife Rosa and teen-age daughters Silvia and Rosa. The reason for this new friendliness: Gonzÿlez had turned his back on the Communists...
...each item of good news, Liberals slapped their desks and Mackenzie King beamed more broadly. But Abbott, like Santa Claus pointing to a bag stuffed with presents, kept his audience waiting for long minutes before he loosened the drawstrings and displayed his prize package: a new schedule of income-tax rates under which "the average amount of tax will be reduced by about 29%. . . . The reduction . . . is as much as 54% in the bottom bracket, but is limited to about 6% or 7% in the top brackets." Half of the relief will apply on 1947 incomes, since reductions go into...
While still new at the game, he wrote a naive item about some "hidden gambling dens" on Turk Street. Police raided the joints and the next night the gamblers asked Caen to come down for a drink. "I thought they were being good guys," he says, "but they slipped me a Mickey." Today he is more careful about the company he keeps. He makes $24,700 a year from the Chronicle and a weekly radio program for a beer sponsor (titled What's Brewing in San Francisco). He can afford to turn down handsome offers from Hearst...
...press conference in the morning Bolte had cited housing as the single item in domestic policy which still occupied the greater portion of AVC's attention. Attacking the Legion's housing program as strangely similar to that of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, he declared that our failure to provide homes for ex-servicemen was "the No. 1 national disaster...
Mock marathon entries and seductive models may have held the spotlights in Jubilee's ultra-extrovert publicity up to now, but a theatrical item in the weekend's activities will play a larger part in the future...