Word: paired
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nikita Khrushchev kept pushing his brand of consumer Communism. "We did not make a revolution so that we should live worse," he observed on the stump in Hungary. "Some people say, 'You already have one pair of trousers, and they cover everything trousers should.' To this I reply that trousers cover the sinful body, but that is not enough. Perhaps one pair of trousers suffices in the tropics. It doesn't in our country: something might freeze...
...conversion to Roman Catholicism caused a constitutional crisis two months ago that was only ended by her removal from the Dutch line of succession (TIME, Feb. 14). Now, in a country precariously balanced between Protestants and Roman Catholics, the crisis flared up again when the pair flew from Paris on to Rome for an audience with Pope Paul VI. The meeting was held in secret to avoid straining the good relations between the Vatican and The Netherlands. But the story leaked out; so, against the Pope's wishes, did a photograph. While the Dutch government and the royal palace...
Revolution Unlikely. Plucky Helen Suzman, sole parliamentary voice of South Africa's small, anti-apartheid Progressive Party, accurately called it "slave labor." Said she: "The government imagines the African as a disembodied pair of black hands to work for the whites...
...Runner, a 31-ft. bomb, driven by Florida's Harold Abbott, whose twin 521-h.p. Holman-Moody Ford engines made it the most powerful boat in the race. For competition, there were 32 other boats. General Motors pinned its hopes on Allied 36 and Allied GX, a pair of 40-ft. monsters powered by twin 315-h.p. G.M. diesels. From Louisiana's Gulf Coast came Ragin' Cajun, a 32-ft. diesel whose skipper announced: "This is a work boat, the kind we use to take workers out to the offshore oil rigs. We aim to beat...
...adequate triple jumpers by mortal standards, but can't compete with the likes of Chris Ohiri. Allen and Kuhn should fall to Ohiri and Aggrey Awori in the broad jump, and Army sprinters Bob Ramsay and Jim Jenkins may do no better than third and fourth against the same pair...