Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intervention in a state when "national integrity" is threatened, Castello Branco let the military have its way. In the space of two days, 6,000 federal troops poured into the state capital of Goiania. The troops took over the telephone and telegraph systems, power companies and a water-treatment plant, formed up around the palace. Outmanned and outgunned, Borges caved in and turned the government over to the military. The way the brass told it, they got Borges just in time...
Perfect Intuition. With all this, she gained confidence. "Most beautiful women are not beautiful enough to suit themselves," she says. "I have never believed I was beautiful. Once in a while, I will sidle up to a mirror and plant a kiss on it and squeal something about how beautiful I am, but I am just kidding. I would rather you^ tell me I am beautiful than intelligent, because I am sure of my intelligence. I have not accepted the physical part of me yet." Even though it has a star of the quality of Bob Cummings, Living Doll, which...
Just as many emerging nations welcome expertise from the U.S. Government, emerging businessmen want it from the private sector. Businessmen from 26 African, Asian and Latin American nations have indicated that they would like help with such jobs as auditing, cost control, administration, plant engineering, product design and marketing. To provide it, according to preliminary plan, U.S. businessmen joinng the Service" Corps would spend up to two years abroad on a consultant ?asis; unlike the situation in the Peace corps, they would be paid a nominal fee collected by the corps from the companies they advise...
Meanwhile, Ben Bella has been courting both Western and Communist oilmen to reduce his dependence on France. Soviet experts are training 650 Algerians as oil technicians at a school near Algiers, and a U.S.-British-French combine has just opened a $64 million plant at coastal Arzew to freeze natural gas and ship it to fuel-shy Britain in insulated tankers. Italy's giant ENI plans to build a refinery at Arzew on a fifty-fifty basis with Ben Bella...
Pakistan's entire economy is tightly interwoven with jute, which is second only to cotton as the world's most widely used natural plant fiber. Last week Pakistan's vital jute industry was snarled in a strike of nearly 60,000 workers who are demanding higher wages. Some mills were the scenes of clashes, and others resolutely evicted all workers. The mood was different at the mills of one jute maker, who has retained the good will of his striking workers by continuing to provide them with their regular fringe benefits of inexpensive company housing and rice...