Word: kins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the ancients labeled them kin to Hanuman. demigod king of the monkeys, India's monkeys have been prolific, pampered pests. But starting in 1951, when scientists discovered that rhesus monkey kidneys were ideal for making polio vaccines, hordes of the primates were lured from the Assam jungles to worthy ends in the laboratories of the world. Shipping 150,000 small brown monkeys annually to 30 countries (80% to the U.S.), India earned $3,000,000 a year in foreign exchange; four big exporters and 5,000 trappers prospered, and many airlines cashed in on the boom...
...mighty upsetting to Robert Taylor, the kid's big brother. "I wanted him straight," he sighs, "that's all. But he was rotten leather and he came apart." So in the end it's brother against brother, but as they say down Texas way, "Yew kin saddle the wind, but yew cain't ride it." Taking the bitter with the better, Saddle the Wind is a pretty good western. Rod Serling's script is intelligible, and Actor Taylor has acted in enough horse operas to appear at ease on a horse...
...northern province of Corrientes, he reached the University of Buenos Aires in time to choose between the fashionable political trends of Argentina in the late '20s: the right-wing nationalists led by the Prussianized army, and the University leftists. Frondizi turned left, went in for Marx and Kropot-kin-but pulled up short of becoming a socialist or Communist. Instead, he breezed through law school in three years and turned down the school's Diploma of Honor because it was to have been presented by a military dictator who had just toppled the ruling Radicals...
...help pay company debts, the board will try to sell two of its seven subsidiaries, Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co. and Quick-Way Truck Shovel Co. Then it hopes to build up its most promising subsidiary, Pratt & Whitney Co., a machine-toolmaker (no kin to the aircraft-engine firm), while it figures out what to do with Penn-Texas' 46% block of Fairbanks, Morse stock...
...kin to the Mahatma...