Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...India is being resumed after a halt caused by the Kashmir war, and an aid-India consortium, organized by the World Bank, will soon announce a $900 million loan to finance imports. Mrs. Gandhi makes it clear that the fact that Western bankers approve of her economics does not rob her of in dependence in foreign affairs. Last week she also announced plans for a visit to the Soviet Union in July...
...grant the right to strike for better work conditions, but great disproportion exists when an essential working force like the Transport Workers Union can flout a court order, rob the labor movement of its dignity, and create hardship for New York City's populace [Jan. 14]. It is time for the union to curb its unrestrained economic appetite as well as its vituperative chief spokesman; otherwise T.W.U. may join Him at the end of the long White House leash...
...abroad. It puts most of the Times's Washington and foreign coverage on the wire, plus some of the paper's local reporting; it also sends out the daily Times front-page makeup to show other editors how to play the news. Editor-Manager Rob Roy Buckingham aims for more and more subscribers among the nation's smaller newspapers. "The spread of the defense industries is bringing Ph.D.s into small towns," he says. "And people from the East, who are used to a diet of the Times, are moving all over...
...Rob a Department Store. It is Dec. 24 at the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris. Into the throng of late shoppers come two colossally inept hoods (Jean-Claude Brialy, Albert Remy), intent on hijacking 100 million francs from the cashier's office. Straight off, they discover that they have forgotten to bring tools. Detouring to "basement hardware," they lose more time through a plumbing mishap, Santa's payday and a jammed elevator-then, none too brilliantly, bring off the heist. A couple of minutes later, they lose the cash to a teen gang that has been holding...
...turnout for squash is again extremely large, and the Houses have a great pool of talent from which to draw their "A" teams. The league's outstanding players are Doug MacDonald and Don Frendenberg (Lowell House), Tim Carter and Larry Rand (Adams), and Rob Howard (Kirkland...