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Word: perse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Led by U.S. Plywood-Champion Pa pers, Inc., the manufacturers formed their own mortgage-finance company and announced its intention to offer 10%-down-payment loans without Government backing to buyers of homes priced as high as $40,000 or occasionally more. "There's an overwhelming need for this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Housing: Partners for Piggyback | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

Confusing the Stories. On the shop pers' level, the anti-stamp crusade has grown even more spirited. Last week, 100 women and children gathered in an Anaheim, Calif., stadium for a "stamp burning" and fed a bonfire with super market bingo tickets, game cards and trading-stamp books - though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Merchandising: Stamps: Taking a Licking | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

At The Hague last week, Finance Ministers and central bankers from ten nations paused during a two-day conference on international monetary problems for a banquet at Het Prinsenhof, the royal residence of William of Orange. Presiding as host, Dutch Finance Minister Anne Vondeling toasted his colleagues with an old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finance: Group Perseverance | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

Angry Letters. Leading the attack is a generation of young Kenya urbanites who look upon the dowry as institutionalized blackmail. In Nairobi, the angry young men have formed a group called the Kenya Dowry Reformation Movement, and are flooding Nairobi pa pers with letters demanding an end. "The Attorney General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: The Bride Price | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

Fat, flabby, 45-year-old Farouk symbolized the gross results of a classically misspent life. Last week he died as he had lived - gorging himself on fine food with a willowy blonde at his side. The end came in Rome's Ile de France restaurant on the ancient Aurelian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: A Tale of Two Autocrats | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

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