Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make the most of them. On his way from the airport to last week's New York Athletic Club Games, he remembered that he had not had dinner. Stopping off at a Manhattan restaurant, he ate a bowl of vegetable soup, a thick sirloin steak, and a heaping plate of mashed potatoes. Then he went out and ran the fastest indoor mile in history...
...Understandably, the VA thought that the original builder ought to foot the repair bill. The Justice Department agreed. What made the matter touchy was the fact that the hospital was built by Millionaire Philadelphia Contractor Matthew Henry McCloskey, 70, a veteran Democratic fund raiser, inventor of the $100-a-plate dinner, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee for seven years and, since 1962, John F. Kennedy's ambassador to Ireland...
Take Connecticut, where for an extra $10 a driver may request a plate made up of two, three or four letters. The state permits such plates to be handed down as heirlooms in the immediate family, so that it is harder and harder to get your first choice of initials or your favorite four-letter word. Obvious obscenity and scatology is, of course, barred, but one Connecticut car is registered as MERD-it stands for Milk, Eggs, Raymond Dairy...
...million factory for its new Kadett small cars at Bochum-symbolically built over an abandoned coal mine. At Essen and Dortmund, Krupp, Siemens and AEG have put up new plants to manufacture everything from turbogenerators to X-ray apparatus. Also sprouting are plants for electronics parts, TV sets, plate glass and clothing, as well as factories that turn out a cheap furniture; in honor of its city of origin, Germans have dubbed the furniture "Gelsenkirchner Baroque." Though the Ruhr gained fame for its contributions to the arsenals of war in times past, today it has no armaments industry to speak...
...spite of such broad activities, DSM's board still has to seek approval from the Minister of Economic Affairs for any expenditure of more than $25,000, must wait for a snail-paced Parliament to approve partnerships with private companies (recent examples: Dow Chemical, Pittsburgh Plate Glass). Many firms are reluctant to enter into deals that require excessive red tape and government scrutiny. Largely for such reasons, the Dutch decided on "privatization." For the time being, the government will remain DSM's only stockholder. But in all other respects, DSM President Antoine C. Rottier and his four vice...