Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within 30 minutes the fiscal strings were applied to Powell on a voice vote that brought nary a nay. Roosevelt then rose to add: "In view of the action just taken by the House, there does not seem to be much point in continuing this particular discussion." He merely inserted in the record a mild defense of the Education and Labor Committee, of which he is a member. Neither he nor anyone else in the House had a kind word for Powell...
...many ways, the Mexican economy appears as hardy as a flowering desert cactus, a bright contrast to its hemisphere neighbors. For 1962, according to the Bank of Mexico. Latin America's thirdbiggest nation pushed its gross national product 4.2% higher than 1961; manufacturing output rose 5.2%, total investment was up 6%, and merchandise exports climbed 12.1%. Thus nourished, Mexico is fast developing a middle class...
...year later, with an investigation pending. Burgess and Maclean danced out of Britain a step ahead of the British police. Rumors persisted that the pair had been warned by a government official that the heat was on, and in 1955 a Labor M.P. rose in the House of Commons to accuse Philby of being the tipster. Admitting that Philby had been asked to resign from the Foreign Office because of his friendship with Burgess, Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, otherwise completely cleared him of any charge of treason or of being the "socalled 'third man,' if indeed there...
...Phillips Exeter Academy one morning last week as the school's 766 boys were summoned to a sudden meeting. "The school is bankrupt," some joked. "Girls are going to be admitted," others hoped. When Principal William Gurdon Saltonstall, 57, uncoiled his towering frame (6 ft. 4 in.) and rose to speak, the news topped the rumors...
...Italian garrison stumbled off in all directions. Then flying squads of German soldiers burst into the Vomero, the city's principal slum, and gun-butted the male population into labor battalions. In a fury the Neapolitan canaglia, known for a thousand years as the scum of the earth, rose in heroic rebellion against allies they had always loathed. Out of manholes, cellars, caves and sewers crammed with smuggled guns and ammo they came storming, and in four historic days of blood and glory rang a tocsin that awoke the Underground from Naples to the Alps...