Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dearth of material on Perkins up till now has been a testimonial to the success of his obsessive search for anonymity, and it is fitting that Berg opens his book with an anecedote about it. He tells how Perkins, after arriving home late after giving a speech to a publishing class, finds one of his daughters waiting...
...bill sent to the Oval Office is the product of a joint House-Senate committee that began meeting late last week in the Ways and Means Committee's ornate, high-ceilinged conference room in the House's Longworth Office Building. The task of these ten Representatives and 14 Senators was to reconcile the vastly differing tax bills that each chamber had passed. While the Representatives' version, approved last month, would have saved taxpayers $16.3 billion, the Senate expanded the cut to $29.3 billion...
China and Taiwan employ the same system in competing for defectors. Prices in Taiwan for Communist pilots range from 6,000 taels of gold (worth about $900,000) for a defector flying a late-model TU-16 bomber to 500 taels (about $75,000) for a pilot with an obsolete cargo aircraft. So far, four pilots have qualified for rewards, the latest in July 1977. Mainland China offers higher prices - up to 7,000 taels (about $1,050,000) for a Nationalist pilot in a Phantom fighter - but so far there have been no takers...
...fighters of the Kenya air force. At the center of the colorful hosannas, a leather-bound Bible in his hands, was Daniel Torotich arap Moi, 54, who swore to serve the people of Kenya "faithfully and impartially" as the country's second President and successor to the late Jomo Kenyatta. The country's Anglican archbishop presided over an ecumenical thanksgiving service...
Arap Moi's festive induction late last week symbolized Kenya's achievement in effecting a painless, peaceable transition of power following Kenyatta's death in August after 15 consecutive years of rule since national independence. Indeed, in the turbulent politics of black Africa, arap Moi's ascension is almost unique. Said a State Department official: "We are witnessing a succession achieved without violence or the threat of violence. All the prophets of doom have been proved wrong." An editorial in Zambia's Daily Mail concluded: "If the old man came back from the dead...