Word: papering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lovell also has looked to the skies for a long time. At 16, he designed and built a rocket that rose 80 ft. on a fuel mixture of gunpowder and airplane glue. And in a term paper at Annapolis, he predicted that rockets would really have their day after man finally penetrated the vacuum of space. Early in his astronaut training, Lovell bubbled over with so much nervous energy that fellow astronauts called him "Shaky"-although he has since proved that he is nerveless in space...
...found the Yale Daily News building, and saw a notice inviting all interested coeds to work for the paper while they were in New Haven...
...volunteered to write a story for the paper, and after a great deal of snickering and behind-the-hand jokes I was assigned to cover the Abe Fortas Film Festival at the Law School. The Festival consisted of the seven films that were so obscene that they were only saved from destruction by Abe Fortas' vote on the Supreme Court. Somehow appropriate for the first night of Coed Week...
Then he scribbled a note on a piece of paper and handed it to Minister of Information Joël le Theule. It said simply that a communique would be issued at 7:45 that evening. Neither Le Theule nor any other Cabinet official, except perhaps Couve, had a clear idea of what the President would do. Typically, De Gaulle did not make his decision known to his Cabinet or talk about his solution. He said only, "Thank you, gentlemen. I will take your views into consideration...
...part to the monetary system that now shows increasing signs of fragility. There are at least two separate, but related, troubles. The volume of world trade is rising far more quickly than the global supply of gold. To overcome that gap, the IMF last year devised a sort of "paper gold"-a new international money called "special drawing rights." Use of the SDKs, as they are called, awaits ratification by nations that contribute at least 80% of the IMF's $21 billion bankroll...