Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predictions that they would stay away from the polls in large numbers out of sheer apathy. If that happened, the Tories might indeed turn the tide in marginal districts and, at least, avert a Labor landslide. By any pollster's calculations, however, victory seemed beyond the Tories' reach...
Disney's Pollyanna is looking more like an aging Lolita now, but it's perfectly all right. Old Child Actress Hayley Mills, who will reach 20 this month, arrived in Manhattan under the proud chaperonage of her parents-though a photographer did manage to ascertain that the kid has lovely legs. In fact, she is such a family concern that for her latest picture, the Upcoming Gypsy Girl, Mother Mary Bell Mills wrote the script, Father John Mills directed and Daughter Hayley acted as a 17-year-old who falls in love with a gypsy. "This silly thing...
...arranger, Sid Bass, deserves a far more prominent billing than the one afforded him: He has been forced to reach deep into his bag of tricks, coming up with virtually every phoney-baloney recording studio technique of goosing one non-existent voice and twelve non-existent melody lines into a passable record. The resulting styles skip from Chinese to Calypso, by way of a plethora of hoked-up Folk Rock, and the one catchy tune, Bamiba, turns out to be an old Kingston Trio favorite, complete with only slightly altered lyrics. This theft, I must add, is in the best...
...then looped back and stole a full-court pass. As Robertson dribbled up the left side, Sam Jones fouled him and Oscar made both. A Havlicek jumper brought the Celts within two points again, but they had to foul; Hairston made two more to put the game out of reach...
...President's plan has basically a twofold purpose: to bring decent living conditions within the reach of poor families and to begin clearing up urban slums and breaking up ghettos. Under the proposal, a family whose net worth does not exceed $2,000 a year (or $5,000 for the elderly) would be asked to spend one-fourth of its income on rent; the Federal government would make up the difference on the rent charged. Only buildings owned by non-profit or limited dividend organizations (unions or churches, for example) would be subsidized. By thus supplementing its existing public housing...