Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Labor leaders found solace in the fact that municipal elections do not always reflect national sentiment. Richard Crossman, Minister of Housing, noted that the government had had to do a great many "unpopular things in order to repair a long period of damage" under the Tories. Labor's austerity program had resulted in higher interest rates on loans for housing and cars, and a rise in local taxes. In view of last week's defeat, many thought that Wilson almost certainly would avoid the headlong rush into a general election that many of his supporters were proposing, instead...
...would have to wait five years or more for delivery under current production rates. Though Kosygin would like to change that, it is obvious that it will be 15 or 20 years before Russia can develop a mass-production automobile industry and the necessary complex of gas stations, repair shops and spare-part systems to go along with it. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, for one, was not willing to wait that long: last week he bought a $17,000 Lincoln Continental executive limousine, complete with built-in bar and TV console...
...more within two years, including a 66,000-sq.-ft. circular supermarket that will be Europe's largest single food store. The largest store now is also owned by Minimax: its Pryca store in Madrid, which sells TV sets as well as T-bone steaks, also provides shoe repair and coin-operated laundry service. So successful is the store that the chain is already building three more stores in Madrid, two in Barcelona and one in Malaga...
...opportunities of spring-vacationing students are a bit broader this year. They can pursue beer, surf, snow, sex -or the repair of bombed Negro churches. Those who choose carpentry, however, may have a problem: a group at St. Louis' Washington University canvassed the South, could not find a burned-out church that had not already been claimed by other students...
...drive, aimed at Advocate alumni, will establish a trust fund to help repair the Advocate building, to hire a full-time secretary-bookkeeper, and to create a "matching fund" to help keep the magazine from losing money on individual pauses...