Word: latterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another $34 million) has been used, despite grandiose plans for a 60,000-ton steel plant. A telephone exchange and a broadcasting station are successfully in operation, but of a dozen other plants promised, only a shoe factory and a food processing plant have been built, and the latter is having what is euphemistically described as "operating difficulties." The Soviets blame the Iraqis for procrastination and noncooperation. The Iraqis blame poor Soviet engineering standards, citing as an example the Baghdad-Basra railway-new last April, but so poorly ballasted that it has never been used...
...Department of Justice, MCA ceased to be the world's largest talent agency, preferring to concentrate on its efforts as a film studio, and it has since become the world's largest motion picture and television company. More than any other studio, MCA has led the latter-day renaissance of Hollywood, and the man who has done the leading is MCA's president, Lew R. Wasserman...
...tutors fall below the status of those with a grammar school education. The very opposite is the case. A good private tutor is a more costly form of education than even that of Eton. I should know, for I was educated by the former and my brother at the latter, and I cost my father a great deal more with probably less to show for it save for a sound taste in wines and fast cars...
...after the Brown meet, Harvard won all the rest, largely because of the improvement of Dave Allen, who consistently finished second behind Hewlett during the latter half of the season. Allen placed second behind Walt in the Heps also, as the junior pair and Bill Crain, who took ninth place, led the Crimson to a surprise runner-up finish behind Navy...
Tier for Protection. Under the new draft, young men will register upon reaching age 20, serve two years of active duty. The first 4,200 are to be inducted during the latter half of 1965, after which inductions will continue at the rate of 6,900 men a year-which will increase army manpower from 22,750 at present...