Word: literally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Victor Valles Solan, too, feels passionately about his children. He has five of them, and in Cuba, where he once ran a small steel foundry, he began to feel that they were becoming hostages to the fortunes of the state. "We were allowed a ration of only one liter of fresh milk every other day," says Valles, 46, "but what is more important is that every day the children learned Communist doctrine in the schools, and going to church was never talked about. I realize that I am going to the United States with many illusions, but for me your...
...been driving fast cars since 1963. Single, a resident of New York City and a physicist, she was one of four women considered for astronaut status by NASA in 1965. She has competed in more than 120 recognized auto races; her most impressive wins were in the "Under 2 Liter Prototype" class at Sebring, Fla., in 1970 and in the "B Sedan" class in the 1973 North Atlantic Road Racing Championship...
...years before Texans ask for 38-liter hats, or a Miss America measures 91-66-91, or a new Hank Aaron hits a towering 109-meter home run. Inevitably and irreversibly, however, the metric system is coming...
...Soft drinks in liter-size bottles are being tested by Seven-Up. Slogan: "A quart and a liter bit more...
...regime continue to suffer from the economic decline that started while Papadopoulos was in power. Inflation is running at an annual rate of 35%; the price of gasoline ($2.50 per gal.) is the highest in Europe, and olive oil, a Greek staple, costs nearly twice ($2 a liter) what it did last year...