Word: merlis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COMBO'S prescription is to ask mer chants and well-to-do residents to do nate virtually anything they can part with-except cash. Individuals are in vited to turn over their summer homes when they do not plan to use them. As for businesses, airlines are asked to give away empty seats on long-distance flights, laundries to volunteer a few weeks of free washing - all taxdeductible. Then everything is auctioned off at a gala dinner attended by the city's best people...
Onassis did not come emptyhanded. Rainier was originally delighted to see him, because the Greek shipping magnate invested some $1,500,000 in 52% of the stock of the Société des Bains de Mer, an Edwardian sprawl of properties that includes the casino, the yacht club, the 60-year-old Hótel de Paris and about one-third of Monaco's 375 acres. Bien, thought Rainier, Ari will also bring in his rich friends, make the roulette wheels spin as they used to before the war-and use the S.B.M.'s reserves to build...
Seychelles were the lost site of the Garden of Eden. His reasoning: they are the only source of the fabled coco de mer, whose giant 40-lb. fruit, long valued as a love potion, must have been what Eve really fed to Adam...
...electric heaters, they turn to gas, build up pressure and push themselves into the cells. And those heaters are among the least complicated devices on the spacecraft: a filament of gold-plated wire curving around the tank. The same type of device is a veteran of all the manned Mer cury and Gemini flights, being used to convert liquid oxygen into gas for the astronauts to breathe. When oxygen pressure started falling in Gemini 5, it was a sure sign that for some reason electricity was not heating that vital filament...
...voters. Everybody remembers how he went out of his way to alienate audiences, attacking TVA in Tennessee, medicare in front of Florida pensioners, and the President's anti-poverty campaign in the depressed, eleven-state Appalachian region. Now, as his prospects of election became dimmer and dim mer, he sounded wilder and wilder in his charges against the Johnson Administration...