Word: pipefuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite many personal details (Bertrand Russell, we learn, smokes a pipe and reads detective stories) and ostentatious visual descriptions of each philosopher's appearance (which the author obviously had to ask for), it is difficult from Ved Mehta's elliptical notes to get a good grip on just what the men are or what they stand...
...minutes before the Montreal and Toronto stock exchanges closed, Gordon appeared in the Commons, announced that because of "certain administrative difficulties" he was withdrawing the 30% takeover tax from the budget. In the final moments after his announcement, the stock markets staged a spectacular rally. Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd., which had dropped from 30 to 26¾ by 2:30 p.m., soared to 29½ by closing time...
...dredged up 15 envelopes of gaskets, and the Atlantis found two broken pieces of battery plates. Both gaskets and plates are almost certain to have come from the lost sub. Latest pictures from Conrad show an air bottle of a type used on Thresher and a broken piece of pipe* that was probably once a part of the sub's internal plumbing...
...Today, an estimated 6,000,000 Japanese-many of them housewives, factory workers and shopkeepers-own stocks. An average trading day on the Tokyo Exchange sees no fewer than 100 million shares of stock change hands. The trail blazer in this phenomenal growth of stock ownership is a jovial, pipe-chewing kabuya (securities broker) named Tsunao Okumura, who has fought public apathy, occupation forces, and the power of Kabutocho, Japan's Wall Street, to educate the Japanese public in the benefits of owning stocks...
...Guards. Common criminals are assigned as trusties in the political prisons, are encouraged to beat the anti-Castro inmates with clubs and lengths of pipe. The regular guards are even worse. At the Isle of Pines during the Bay of Pigs invasion, all prisoners were herded into the open, stripped, forced to kneel and advised to pray. A prisoner named René Santana prayed aloud that the invaders would triumph; a guard blew his brains out. At La Cabaña in Havana, the guards amused themselves by ordering prisoners outside, where they are stripped, beaten with gun butts...