Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last August Ho flew off to Moscow for an unpublicized talk with Khrushchev. The following month Ho sided with Moscow in its doctrinal dispute with Peking, and last December the payoff came. Russia promised to ship 43 industrial enterprises to Viet Nam by 1965, including power stations, fertilizer factories and machine-tool factories. In addition, Moscow lent Hanoi $480 million in rubles...
...picture deals with five people who sense but don't actually know where they are. Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach, and Montgomery Clift make the characters vital not only as individuals but for what they represent: dreams that went sour, the lies, the payoff, the human self-destruction, and all that Miller sees in his own country and his own life...
Detectives made 10,000 checkups, ranging from France and Spain to Turkey and the U.S. Some 1,500 persons were questioned, 1,500 Peugeot sedans were searched, 2,000 tips investigated. The international police organization, Interpol, sent out 100,000 lists of the bank-note numbers on the payoff money...
Married. Janet Ellen Wagner Frank, 29, photographer's model and widow of Lawyer Julian Frank, who was killed, along with 33 others, in a plane crash 13 months ago when a dynamite bomb exploded near his seat in an unsolved murder-or-suicide mystery that has prevented the payoff to his widow of $997,500 in insurance; and Joseph F. Rafferty, 37, newly appointed San Francisco sales manager of the Phillips-Van Heusen shirt company; in New York City on St. Valentine...
...most convinced of these supporters is Franklin Ford, professor of History. While he concedes that the value of exams may vary from field to field, "in history, the payoff is what you can do with the material." Examinations are good, not so much because they require students to remember everything--"the police function of examinations has been over-emphasized"--as because a good examination gives students "a real intellectual experience." Answering well-formulated examination questions, the student "sits down at the end of a course and follows a theme through a 150-year period. He gets to see the forest...