Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early this year, Klein & Saks, a U.S. consultant firm, recommended an overhaul of Ecuador's antiquated tax structure, under which the rich minority get off easy. Three months ago, angling for Alliance for Progress aid, Velasco ordered new taxes. But instead of increasing the burden on the aristocracy, he slapped the little man with a series of excise taxes on 37 consumer items from soft drinks to lard. One levy even set tolls for the country's few paved roads, many of which were built with the $121 million in U.S. aid that Ecuador has received since World...
Lady Bird's major overhaul for the house was aimed at the kitchen, to which she has added a double-oven electric range, two food freezers and a restaurant-size refrigerator. She has plans to make other minor improvements as she goes along. "If there is a clash between function and style, function will win." says Lady Bird. "I want it to be gracious enough, but it would be out of keeping to expect us to do something really very elegant." Accordingly, there is a brand-new. $15,000 swimming pool in the backyard. And Mrs. Johnson...
...court decision reversing an appealed verdict has saved the University from a major overhaul of its polity on alcohol and undergraduates...
Strong Starter. But the biggest Tiger asset, as Detroit tries to overhaul the Yankees, is Pitcher Frank Lary, 30. He is certain to become the second American League pitcher (after Yankee Whitey Ford) to win 20 games this season, and significantly, he has run up the best part of his lifetime record against the Yankees themselves. Since 1955, he has beaten the Yankees 26 times, lost only nine times; last week he moved into a series with New York sporting a league record of 19-7 and in front of the Yanks, 3-1. (Only pitcher who ever beat...
...Ulbricht's pal was a Russian courier who had direct contact with Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin in Moscow. Soon Pravda was sniping at the "nonproletarian enemies of the working class in the German party," and soon Ulbricht's enemies were purged. It was time for a major party overhaul; tough, conscientious Walter Ulbricht got the job. Comrade Ulbricht took on the name Genosse Zelle (Comrade Cell), began atomizing the easygoing Communist cliques into tight little cells of neighborhood half-dozens who were strangers to one another...