Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perhaps as prominent, is Lin Toutou, daughter of Marshall Lin Piao, Mao's top lieutenant and heir apparent. Her articles from the Air Force News, including an unusually emotional tribute to the late Air Force Commander Liu Ya-lou, are said to be prominently displayed under the glass plate on Marshal Lin's desk. Both the fatherly pride and the daughterly sentimentality are surprising-if ever so slight-touches of humanity in a country that has lately taken to warning its youth against "the evil wind of falling in love...
...years, Manhattan's 855 Madison Ave. had been an outlet for a Gristede grocery store, surrounded by shops selling electric appliances, antiques and furs. But by last week, the space had been remodeled, with huge plate-glass windows, an aluminum tunnel entrance and, inside, distinctive orange carpeting that climbed right up the walls. It had become Yves Saint Laurent's Rive Gauche, his boutique beachhead in the U.S. And in the fashion world, Yves's name is magic. Along the police barricades, students from nearby fashion schools and aspiring models draped themselves, many in versions...
...together at his chest. Suddenly he wheels to the right, rears back and throws. If it is a strike, McLain licks his teeth with obvious satisfaction. Back comes the ball from the catcher and, as if bored with the very sight of the batter, McLain turns away from the plate...
...Brass Plate. For his efforts, Salinger gets a hefty salary plus stock options. One of his frequent tasks, Salinger concedes, is helping to dispel investor worries about GRAMCO's Nassau base. Lax laws, loosely enforced, have given the Bahamas a reputation as a haven for promoters of dubious activities...
While all too many Nassau-based firms consist chiefly of a brass plate on a lawyer's door and someone to answer the mail, GRAMCO's 100 Nassau staffers fill three floors in two office buildings. To make sure that every penny of income and outgo is handled meticulously, GRAMCO has turned the routine operation of the fund over to the prestigious Trust Corp. of the Bahamas, which is jointly owned by such institutions as Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., the Royal Bank of Canada and London's Westminster Bank...