Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convinced as the U.S. might be, there remained great doubt that the U.N. fact-finders would be able to document the charge of intervention in Laos to the satisfaction of the world's Foreign Offices, not a few of which would much prefer not to know what Peking and Communist North Viet Nam are up to in Laos. The chairman of the U.N. party, Japan's Shinichi Shibusawa, promised that the subcommittee would "go wherever it had to"-thus quashing earlier reports that the investigators would not stir out of Vientiane into the mysterious northern jungles where...
...wind-lashed shore of Lake Maracaibo last week, ground was broken for a new, $3,000,000 flour mill. Most of the Venezuelans who watched would have needed only one guess, if they did not know already, at the name of the man responsible for building the mill (jointly with Minneapolis' Pillsbury Co.). He is Eugenio Mendoza Goiticoa, 52, a ranking example of the new, still small and largely unsung breed of Latin American industrialists who believe not only in good profit, but in productive private industry, well-treated, self-respecting labor, and-even more notable-in philanthropy...
...save only a median $150 last year. At that rate, it will take them ten years to save enough for one year of college for one child-at current costs, and last year alone costs jumped 9.5%. Concludes Ford Foundation Vice President Clarence Faust: "American parents apparently need to know more about the economics of higher education...
...Soviet press had fleshed out the image they sought: of an America that gave its heart to the world's No. 1 peddler. "Nikita S. Khrushchev," said Moscow's Literary Gazette, "is the constant, fearless, fervent champion of peace. Now all the common people of the world know it. This includes the citizens...
...among wealthy aristocrats. But today, chances are slim that the thieves were hired by one such determined art lover. "That stuff will be hot for the next 100 years," said Toronto Inspector John Gillespie, as police dispatched photographs of the stolen masterpieces throughout the world. "I don't know how they will get rid of it." Best guess: the thieves have merely kidnaped the six pictures, plan to hold them until the insurance company offers a big enough ransom for their return...