Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spreading Fires. Rushing to Detroit at midday Sunday, Michigan's Governor George Romney called in 370 state troopers to beef up the defenses, then by late afternoon ordered 7,000 National Guardsmen mobilized...
...Soviets have come relatively late to the realization that tourism is an excellent way to win friends and earn foreign exchange, they are rapidly making up for lost time. At the moment, hotels in Moscow are booked sol id. But new hotels are going up everywhere, including Moscow's vast Russia Hotel, now partly open, to be completed this fall. It will be the world's largest, with 3,182 air-conditioned rooms. Imitating the U.S.'s interstate highway system, Russia is building 39,000 miles of two-and four-lane paved roads-punctuated...
...entire 1947 season by Commissioner A. B. Chandler, who finally decided that his conduct was "detrimental to baseball." Dropped by the Giants in 1955, he couldn't find another managerial job (he was a coach with the Los Angeles Dodgers for four years) until the Cubs called late in 1965. Arriving in Chicago, Leo was the same old Lip. "If I can't win with this group," he roared, "I'll just back up the truck and get another...
...series of crisis measures late in May, including a ban on exports and a limiting of Treasury sales to industrial users only, was a reminder that the Government's stock of silver-and therefore its ability to control the price-was coming to an end. Anticipating the inevitable, dealers began bidding up silver prices. And the Treasury, with enough new "sandwich" coins (made of layers of copper and nickel) around to prevent shortages should speculators be tempted to melt old-style 90% silver coins, decided to move sooner rather than later...
...leaders (who had been de facto leaders for half the previous year) calmly drove many Lampoon members away, leaving no one but charming, neurotic insiders and the obtusely dull hangers-on. While this cultural revolution was underway this spring, the Lampoonproduced virtually nothing. Their "Movies Worst" issue, two months late for the first time in memory, failed even to produce the humor innate in the conventional forms of that issue...