Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just in case you wanted to know, if Mr. Kennedy were to have a $1,000-a-plate dinner every day, each as successful as the first one (net profit: $1,000,000), he could pay off the national debt in about 864 years...
...cuts, then turned to etching and discovered new areas of possibility." He sports a "living etching" on his right forearm-a work executed by a Halifax tattooist from a Baskin design of intertwined snakes. Baskin used a 17th century technique for E.P.: It Is Pitiable-a single hand-inked plate provided a two-color etching...
With their party's National Committee $800,000 in debt, Democrats had to think big. The $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner, invented almost 30 years ago by Pennsylvania's Matt McCloskey, seemed obsolescent. So Democratic party leaders decided to celebrate the second anniversary of President Kennedy's inaugural with a big show at Washington's National Guard Armory, preceded by a dinner at the New International Inn. Tickets to the show were a piddling $100-but those for the dinner drew down no less than...
Patiently, Kaoru ground and polished an eight-inch parabolic mirror. He made a tube out of tin plate. The whole instrument cost him only $20. At first it did not work very well, as is usually the case with home-made telescopes. But Kaoru repeatedly took it apart to reduce its faults...
...eliminating overlapping lines, yards, offices and work forces. "This is a great forward step." said Chairman James M. Symes of the Pennsylvania, which is driving toward merger with the New York Central. Stuart Saunders, president of the moneymaking Norfolk & Western, which is cooking up a merger with the Nickel Plate, said he was "very much encouraged...