Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Much of his decision making is done on airplane flights, during which officials of one Deutsche Bank branch after another accompany him in relays like Pony Express riders, a new team coming aboard with its problems at each stop. But Abs has also found time to spearhead an increasingly potent campaign for an international "Magna Carta" that would discourage governments from arbitrarily expropriating or discriminating against foreign capital...
...singers, thus unembarassed and unencumbered, are capable and impressive. As Mary, Jean Lunn has a voice that is remarkably clear and untroubled. Her Magnificat in the third scene is particularly successful--a potent and thankful handmaiden of the Lord, she glorifies God in graceful, controlled arabesques...
...Delhi meeting, which began last week, is the most portentous and significant of the World Council's three gatherings-more so than the founding Assembly at Amsterdam 13 years ago, or the second Assembly at Evanston, Ill., in 1954. The massive transfusion of new blood, filled with potent hormones, that the ecumenical movement absorbed last week may mark a new lease on life for non-Roman Christianity or bring on a critical case of confusion and decline...
Arizona may seem to be Barry Goldwater's fief, but there remain some potent pockets of Democratic strength. Among them is Tucson (pop. 212,892), where Democrats outregister Republicans 2 to 1. Last week Tucson went Republican...
Ghana's financial plight is the result of Nkrumah's delusions of grandeur. Determined to make Ghana black Africa's most potent nation, Nkrumah set out on a national glorification binge. In a disastrous attempt to establish Ghana Airways as a great international airline, Nkrumah ordered British Viscounts, Russian Ilyushins, U.S. Boeing jets. But Ghana had neither the money to pay for the planes nor the business to warrant them; the Boeing order has been canceled, and Nkrumah is trying to get Russia to take back some of the Ilyushins. Reason: in the last three months...