Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Priming the Pump. Spain's advocates could point out that Franco had really tried. Reluctantly admitting that his country could not achieve economic maturity outside the Common Market, he embarked on a deliberate policy of liberalization. Press censorship was eased; reactionary Falangist ministers were replaced by more open-minded officials; a recent trial of 33 political prisoners was held before a civilian rather than a military court-and some prisoners were even acquitted...
Died. Alexander Petrunkevitch, 88, Ukrainian-born arachnologist, famed at Yale (where he taught from 1910 to 1944) for weekly teas and vivid lectures ("The lobster stomach, she pump all time long"), the 20th century's greatest authority on spiders, who devoted 25,-000 hours to amassing a huge collection (including 180 "magnificent" live tarantulas), produced more than 100 books and monographs on scorpions, black widows, and other varieties, including nearly a dozen insects named after him; of pneumonia; in New Haven...
...individual income taxes and a drop of $2.4 billion in corporate taxes, with two-thirds of the cuts to take effect this year and the rest in 1965. Probably starting in mid-March, the payroll withholding rate will go down from the present 18% to 14%. That will immediately pump $800 million a month into the economy and amount to a weekly raise in take-home pay of $4.20 for a married worker earning $150 and claiming four dependents. Among the bill's specific provisions...
...international law, Mexico could make a case against the U.S., charging stream pollution. As a temporary measure to dilute the brine, U.S. engineers pump fresh water into the Colorado...
Penn is The Team. You name it, the Quakers have it. Their backcourt is absolutely dassting: Ray Caraso and Jeff Neuman are excellent shatters, and Neuman's ball handling is of almost professional caliber. Forward Stan Pawlak can pump in the 20-footers with ease; he is the fourth leading scorer and fourth best rebounder in the League. Height? Center John Hellings stands 6-3 and has pulled down 92 rebounds in Ivy play, second only to whatsisname...