Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...partner in the Manhattan law firm of White & Case, where he worked before joining U.S. Steel in 1942, Gott is naturally careful to give his predecessor proper credit. "We're only trying to complete what Blough started," he says. One of Gott's goals is to lift the company's share of the steel market back up to 30% within the next several years...
...deliver the ballots. When the count was in, the government had suffered a stunning defeat. Nearly 100 of Costa e Silva's followers crossed party lines to vote with the opposition. By a margin of 216 to 141, the deputies quashed the government's motion to lift Alves' parliamentary immunity and permit his conviction for "publicly inciting animosity between the armed forces or between these and social class es or institutions." A handful of spectators in the galleries jumped to their feet cheering, then began to sing the national anthem. After a moment's hesitation, most...
...military aid. Although the French will not acknowledge their role, one of the worst-kept secrets of the war is the fact that armaments are flown into the secessionist state almost nightly from two former French colonies, Gabon and the Ivory Coast. Hard proof of responsibility for the arms lift, however, is hard to come by, as TIME Correspondent James Wilde reported from the Gabonese capital of Libreville...
...appointments between now and the first of the year will determine the character of his Administration for many months, and the public's reaction to it. The President-elect has also begun work on his Inaugural Address, hoping that it will give him the same sort of lift that John Kennedy's gave...
...lift of a very different nature-strictly nonpolitical-should be buoying Nixon in the near future. The new First Family announced last week that Julie Nixon and Ike's grandson, David Eisenhower, will be married Dec. 22 in Norman Vincent Peale's Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan...