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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, the sales had been suspended last February with the seizure of the first U.S. boat. Peru's Dictator General Juan Velasco Alvarado was informed privately that the Pelly amendment to the Foreign Military Sales Act of 1968 left Washington no alternative. For some reason, Velasco had neglected to inform his countrymen, and last week's disclosure from Washington brought a rush of questions in Lima. Velasco held a twelve-hour huddle with his Cabinet and produced a six point communiqué. If the ban on shipments is officially confirmed, it read, then the U.S. military missions currently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Fish and Oil | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...fair assumption that coed living really is the trend of the future," says John Houseley, director of Pomona College's Oldenborg Hall, a mixed residence that was started three years ago. At U.C.L.A. the future has already arrived: there is only one single-sex dormitory left-and even it will soon be converted into a coed dorm for graduate students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: Boys and Girls Together | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...match point, he drilled a hard shot at the grille. Willis managed to get his racket on the ball, but his return soared out of bounds. Game, set, match and world championship to Bostwick. After a gentlemanly handshake, the new king of the court packed his bags and left for the French Amateur Championship, where he will pursue the more simple sport of golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: King of the Court | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...creating. Perhaps that is why Mystery and Manners inadvertently provides a fitting epitaph for the books that she so artfully created before her death. "The fiction writer presents mystery through man ners, grace through nature," she wrote in 1957, 'But when he finishes there always has to be left over that sense of Mystery which cannot be accounted for by any human formula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dust for Art's Sake | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...multimillion-dollar business cannot be run on fun and flowers, the Beatles be latedly discovered after the death in 1967 of their canny manager and mentor, Brian Epstein. More interested in gadding about than tending to their enterprises, they left their convoluted corporate empire (see chart) to run on its own momentum. Inertia was not a successful philosophy. Three of the biggest companies in which the Beatles hold stakes have lately tumbled into trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Beatles Besieged | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

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