Word: run
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Sukarno apparently believes that a government that prints money can also take it away. Last week, faced by skyrocketing inflation that had already run the dollar value of the rupiah to 155 on the black market (against the official rate of 11.4 rupiahs to the dollar), Sukarno demanded action from his Finance Ministry...
...Marroquin Rojas, terrible-tempered owner-editor-publisher of the daily La Hora, holds nothing sacred. He has attacked his own boss, President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes ("General, watch yourself"), and the Roman Catholic Church ("greedy"). Recently, he took a pitchfork to the ICA. He complained that in ICA projects, "gringos run the show," snapped that the ICA Forestry School is "a useless luxury," called U.S. officials "impertinent...
...Evans' aggressiveness has paid off. Crane's net income in the first half rose more than 60%, to $2,333,000. Just how much farther Evans will go toward reducing the size of Crane is a matter of wide speculation. His rift with Landa over how to run the company appears healed. If he can overcome the ill will he has generated through the drastic changes in Crane's organization, roughriding Tom Evans may well add Crane to the list of his successes...
Dinosaur's Dinner. At times, tiring of the earth's-end theme, Clarke pulls a switch, reminds his readers that mankind, whose veins run with the blood of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun, is the more likely aggressor, could cut a dreadful swath through the tentacles, feathers and eyestalks of the galaxy's gentle people. But the best story in Across the Sea of Stars uses the solar system's most venerable gimmick, the time machine. A crew of paleontologists is digging out the 50-million-year-old tracks of a carnivorous dinosaur. The leader...
...astonishing attempt at a mass breakout to British lines by 110 men, which German patrols mopped up. Two more attempts failed; he had one desperate but exhilarating moment when he wheeled his bicycle through a crowd of German troops that had "the stale, panicky smell of troops on the run." Finally, he made it by canoe through the labyrinthine Biesbosch marshes and back to what he calls "this most personal...