Word: pre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Factory Furnished. The process is remarkably efficient because every guest room is not only precast but completely pre-equipped. Everything from plumbing and wiring to light bulbs, bed linen and furniture (which is bolted to the floor or walls) is installed before the rooms leave a factory-like production line seven miles from the site. To allow workmen space to repair pipes and wires in later years, the room modules are set 20 inches apart and the resulting gaps in the hotel's facade are filled with brick. To provide corridors, the back of each room module comes with...
...Harvard hockey team makes its unofficial debut in Watson Rink at 2 p.m. this afternoon in a scrimmage against the Crimson freshmen. This pre-season showdown, the first of its kind in recent years, features a varsity squad that will be shooting for Eastern honors when the season opens officially next week and a highly touted rookie squad with several potential super-stars...
Bronx to Park Avenue. The tenth child of an Italian immigrant family in The Bronx, N.Y., Dr. Giorgi (pronounced Georgy) decided in grammar school that she wanted to become a doctor. Penniless when she finished pre-med courses at New York City's Hunter College in the depths of the Depression, she toiled twelve years as a white-collar worker in a trucking company, saving $12,000 while helping the firm increase sixfold in size. Then, after four years at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, she spent ten years as intern, resident and ultimately chief...
...matter what happens politically. I.C.I, has bought into smaller European chemical firms, constructed plants in The Netherlands and West Germany. To gear itself to foreign competition, it is now in the final phase of a four-year, $1.7 billion capitalization program. It was partly because of that outlay that pre-tax profits dropped steadily over the past three years, to $242 million in 1966. Whatever happens, I.C.I, now does more business abroad than at home, and Chambers thinks that it is in an ideal position "to get in at the top of the next boom...
Fidel Castro, who had bitter experiences with the old Cuban Communist Party in the pre-1959 days and himself a guerrilla leader of some repute, did not play a disinterested role in this ideological battle over tactics. "The armed struggle," blared billboards everywhere on the island, "is the only road to the liberation of Latin America...