Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...served as Humphrey's legislative assistant for six years and is still regarded as a close political confidant of the Vice President's. Representing a Minneapolis company called Napco Industries Inc., Kampelman signed a $2,300,000 loan agreement with AID in 1962 to send auto-parts plant equipment to New Delhi. Napco failed to deliver, and the Justice Department recently filed suit to collect...
...down for lack of business, people get their supplies at Belleville, five miles down the road. The population, according to Bobby's sister Judy, 20, is "about 1,000, if you count the dogs. And about 100 if you don't." The only industry is the cement plant. And the only dash of color in the grey landscape-since Bobby left-is a huge red, white and blue billboard that proudly proclaims: POINT ANNE, BIRTHPLACE OF BOBBY HULL, WORLD'S GREATEST HOCKEY PLAYER...
Come Home, Bobby. It was either that or the cement plant. All the Hulls learned to skate before they learned to read. Judy was such a hard-nosed hockey player that the boys around Point Anne once told her parents they wouldn't play with her any more because she was too rough. Dennis, 23, followed his older brother to Chicago, where he also plays left wing for the Black Hawks, and could some day make a name for himself. Bobby got his first pair of skates the Christmas he was four...
...tackling the steel-mill project, Li's steady-as-you-go scheme was challenged by bureaucrats who wanted to rush the country into steel by buying a packaged mill promising production in three years. Li's backers successfully argued that such a plant would cost more than its long-range worth. His next problem is to raise money for his own kind of plant. Plans call for three-fifths to come from private sources (foreign and domestic), two-fifths from the government. But this should not stop Li, who has a well-earned reputation for achieving success...
...spent five years preparing Wynne for his spy role before he ever met Colonel Penkovsky. Part of the training was a routine initiation into the ar cane arts of a courier: how to conceal film, where to hide messages, what to do if the Soviets plant a girl in his hotel room. But one part consisted of a brutal simulation of what Wynne could expect in a Soviet prison if he was captured, and as it happened, he needed...