Word: parred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Canada's dollar slid almost to par with that of the U.S., its lowest point in 4½ years, and U.S. visitors could spend their money without discount at department stores from Montreal to Vancouver. The currency decline may touch Canadian national pride, but it is just what the financial doctor ordered. In his interim budget, Finance Minister Donald Fleming announced his intention to realign the nation's lopsided balance of payments with the U.S. by imposing heavy taxes on U.S. investors. As to the effect on the dollar, Fleming reasoned that more taxes will dampen...
...Crimson, for fairly obvious reasons, can be a lot more interesting than something like the Moscow University Herald (which, one hazards, regarded 600 annual purges as regrettable faux par that had no place in a sober chronicle of the passing days). Yes, yes, the Crimson is much more than this; as it is easy to see, it is no official organ for anything...
...move that seemed par for the television course, one black Sunday afternoon last season, NBC's low-shooting Celebrity Golf played through, while Omnibus was still searching for a lost sponsor in the Madison Avenue rough. But this week, after an 18-month absence, TV's most consistently high-aiming, wide-ranging show was back where it belonged...
Once Nathan's cartooning clicks, he and Amy move to Connecticut, where non-heroes almost always live. The couple has the standard nonheroic family, one boy, one girl. Nathan eventually makes $100,000 a year, above par for a non-hero, but the tax bite devours his bank balance. After a few years of this and nearly two decades of marriage, Nathan discovers, with the customary belated double take of the non-hero, that he does not know his wife, his children, or himself...
...last month, Gait-skell's foes had rammed through a resolution endorsing unilateral nuclear disarmament for Britain. Defiantly, Gaitskell, a determined supporter of NATO, refused to accept the vote as official Labor policy or as binding on him, argued that only the party's elected representatives in Par- liament could finally speak for the Labor Party. He insisted that the "Parliamentary Party," which is British shorthand for all Labor Members of Parliament, still backed him and his policy of maintaining the nuclear deterrent in alliance with the U.S. and NATO...