Word: packets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minaret, Kutb Minar. From Russia's President Nikolai Podgorny came a 31-ft. porcelain vase, from Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba a solid gold olive tree and from Kuwait's Emir Sabah as Salem as Sabah two black Arabian stallions. President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines sent a packet of seeds of a new strain of rice that, if it finds the right soil, can increase yields tenfold. The gifts and the illustrious names of their senders were well suited to the occasion. Iran last week celebrated the biggest public event of its recent history: the coronation...
...like to contemplate the future of the welfare benefit system without full employment. Even without increased unemployment benefits the social security fund does not balance, and must be subsidized from other taxation. As it is, the government takes a whopping 7½% from everybody's pay packet to finance the welfare state; as the number of unemployed rises, there will be correspondingly fewer to contribute-and therefore higher charges for everyone else...
Instructions Included. The test seems to be working well, according to the distributor, Businessman Ram Saran Dass. Packets of the contraceptives are conspicuously hung up in groceries and betel-nut shops, and they are sold alongside candy, soda, neckties and other household items. All display India's ubiquitous family-planning emblem-a red triangle around a drawing of a family of four, the official ideal. The condoms carry the brand name Nirodh, a Sanskrit word roughly translatable as "freedom from fear." Indian men have been enthusiastic customers, partly because the contraceptives cost less than 2? for a packet...
...year-old mop man wears new Texas Wranglers beneath a soiled white apron, and the cook's slick black hair doesn't quite hide his bald spot. Blitman orders a Fried Egg Special. Two eggs over, hashed browns, one tough English muffin, a packet of marmalade, and regular coffee. Fifty-five cents. Joe Blitman has done Harvard on five dollars a day. The mop man sneezes into his shirt sleeve...
...tterdämmerung. Some are embarrassed to death-mostly civilians. Lady Molly Jeavons' town house cops a packet; the hostess goes with it, and so does Priscilla Tolland. In fact, a head count shows that six previous survivors of the Powell epic are killed off in this novel. In Powell's war, only the rotters flourish-notably Kenneth Widmerpool, whose humorless egomania and bounderish one-upmanship have won him critical status as one of the great comic creations of modern English fiction. He is now on the make as a staff major, a virtuoso of bumf...