Word: linke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tough fellow with a talent for talking like a college professor, Gibbons, 53, teamed up with Hoffa in 1948, by brains and brawling turned his St. Louis local into a key link in Hoffa's chain, became a leader of the Teamsters' powerful Central States Conferences. He worked tirelessly to smooth over the trail of disputes Hoffa left behind him, served as Hoffa's top propagandist, eventually was named Hoffa's executive assistant in Washington...
...bewildering days when she had first moved into the White House, Jackie had often sought refuge from her worries while sitting alone in the Lincoln Room. "It was the one room in the White House with a link to the past," she once recalled. "It gave me great comfort . . . When you see the great bed, it looks like a cathedral . . . I felt a kind of peace in that room . . . I could really feel his strength." Now, she firmly told the family, her husband's funeral must be "as Lincolnesque as possible...
Measure of Danger. One link between all these esoteric facts and human medicine is that the human fetus spends nine months in a fluid world, "breathing" through its mother's blood, then is catapulted into an air-breathing world. Dr. L. Stanley James, of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, has tested newborn babies' blood. It contains chemicals showing that muscles were burning up starch and turning it into lactic acid during birth. If a birth takes unusually long, the concentration of lactic acid increases; it is a measure of how severely the baby...
Whatever its frustrations and contradictions, Colombo provides the West with a link of sorts to almost all of non-Communist Asia. The recipients need the money, no matter how neutral they would like to be. At week's end, the conference agreed to hire an expediter for the regional training program, admitted a 21st member (the Maldive Islands, a British protectorate southwest of India), and hinted that more donor nations would be welcome. Leading candidate for an invitation: West Germany...
...same time, there was no doubt about a determined G.O.P. drive to link a tax cut with a reduction in Government spending. One attempt to do just that was defeated by a single vote in the House Ways and Means Committee two weeks ago, but the so-called "Puritan ethic" amendment touched a responsive chord in the nation. Encouraged by the reaction, House Republicans met last week, overwhelmingly agreed to introduce an even tougher amendment when the bill reaches the floor this week. The proviso would delay the tax cut unless the President, in January's budget message, promises...