Word: maneuverer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lee's only chance of saving himself from political extinction in his fight with the Barisan Socialists is to maneuver Singapore into the federation as soon as possible. Under the terms he proposes, the island would maintain a certain measure of autonomy by controlling its own labor and education...
New situation comedies will be stretching further than ever for their situations. Perennial Loretta Young will be a widow with seven children. There will be rustic mountain folk living in Los Angeles (The Beverly Hillbillies), carpenters exchanging old saws (I'm Dickens . . . He's Fenster), and Stanley Holloway...
Seldom has a company boasted so many suitors in such quick succession as Celotex Corp., a Chicago manufacturer of building supplies. It was his ardent pursuit of Celotex that brought about the downfall of the "boy wonder" financier, Eddy Gilbert (TIME, June 22). No sooner had Gilbert fled to Brazil...
So Many Ifs. In winning, Mosbacher showed the kind of daring that would be foolhardy in another sailor. At one point he drove Weatherly through an opponent's windless lee in a maneuver about as difficult, wrote one reporter, "as driving a golf ball through a wall." But sailors...
Before attempting lunar orbital rendezvous, U.S. astronauts will have to make many practice steps. First will come rendezvous in earth orbit, the crewmen becoming proficient at bringing their satellite capsules together with help from the earth below. Then a spaceship will voyage to the moon, park itself for a while...