Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should see the pile of ironing I still have to do, Martha, but that "One Potato, Two Potato" is certainly a wonderful movie. It's about this nervous, unhappy girl--Barbara Barie, did you see her on "Mr. Novak" last week? She played a nervous, unhappy teacher. Anyway, this white girl was married to a really irresponsible nogoodnik. He left her with a little baby, and took off for the oil fields and adventure of South America so she divorced him. Then she meets this black person, a really fine man. So they get married...
...Norstad, long a strong supporter of a NATO nuclear-strike force, the answer to both questions is yes. Under his plan, NATO's three nuclear producers-the U.S., Britain and France-would create a stock pile of weapons. "Whatever these countries agree to put in," he said, "should, in an emergency, be available in the common interest, unimpaired by the possibility of a last-minute veto by one or another of the nuclear powers." At the heart of Norstad's plan is the creation of an executive committee whose nucleus would be the Big Three. In this respect...
...R.A.F. maintains a full brass band, at a cost of ?85,000 a year. Wrote the Daily Mirror when it found out: "We all know that showing the flag and the mighty oompah, oompah, oompah of the military brass band is a jolly good thing. But who thinks a pile of brass is really worth...
...company goals, managerial decision making and corporate strategy. All this calls for 3½-hour morning sessions in front of the blackboard, three weekly afternoon lectures by guest speakers, and evening seminars for small groups to work over case histories of business problems. Homework, with a three-foot pile of books, often takes more evening hours...
...clots do not show clearly on X rays, and neither do the dead areas of lung surface beyond them. But Dr. George V. Taplin of U.C.L.A. figured that he could spot them with a radioactive substance, which after injection into the veins would pile up at the arterial roadblocks while flowing freely through normal blood vessels. The next problem was to find a radioactive chemical that would do the job, and then disappear harmlessly-preferably a substance that occurs naturally in the human body...