Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least twice a week while coPresident, he jumped behind the controls of his rickety DC-3 and went whistle-stopping to the remotest corners of his Andean nation, donning Indian hats and ponchos, beaming through storms of confetti and trading quips with campesinos in their native Quechua tongue. He ran his government with the same dash and flamboyance...
Technically, T.T.K. quit. In fact, he was sacked for possessing a personality incompatible with those of Shastri and his other ministers. A brilliant, impatient holdover from Nehru's Cabinet, Krishnamachari ran the country's finances as a one-man show, imposed harsh restrictions on the foreign firms in India, and conducted a running fight with the World Bank, which criticized his policies as too restrictive. Contemptuous of his colleagues, he called one minister a "constipated cockroach," advised another to return to teaching, and held back on allocations of foreign exchange for much needed fertilizer largely out of dislike...
...days of World War II. She made an even bigger reputation in the Korean War as the only woman correspondent on the scene. At first, the U.S. Army wanted no women reporters at all and ordered her out of the country. Getting wind of this, a Soviet magazine gleefully ran a cartoon showing her being ejected from Korea at bayonet point. The caption: "MacArthur's first victory." But it was the general who capitulated. Maggie confronted him in Tokyo and complained: "I am not in Korea as a woman but as a war correspondent." Mac rescinded the order...
...standard bill of fare for copper. Of the major metals, it has long had one of the most unstable world market prices. In 1956 that price hit an alltime high of 45⅞? a pound. By 1958 it had sunk to 24 4/5?. Speculation on copper futures ran amuck, and in desperation producers accounting for 70% of the free world's copper supply informally banded together to provide an artificial stability in the form of a set world price. Still copper's willful ways seemed uncontainable. A year ago, the companies pegged their price at 32½?, Then...
Baker will probably run only one race, the two-mile, and he'll be shooting for Walt Hewiett's Harvard indoor record of 9:11.6. His competitors will include high school sensation Art Dulong of Randolph, who ran a 9:09.8 on a flat asphalt track last week...