Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official statement Volpe said that "every possible effort should be made to save the now famous sycamore trees, while giving realistic consideration to the acute problems of traffic congestion in the area." He added, however, that underpasses scheduled for River Street and Western Avenue should proceed...
...official statement came in response to a telegram sent Monday to Volpe and his Democratic opponent, Lieutenant Governor Francis X. Bellotti, by Edward L. Bernays and John R. Moot, co-chairmen of the Citizens Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive. The message reminded the candidates of the great expense involved in constructing the underpasses and of the irreplaceable recreation playgrounds their construction would destroy. It also urged that they support legislation to block their construction...
Nothing to Save. For Brazilian consumers, however, a few percentage points do not a revolution make...
...Prices still rise practically every day," says one Rio householder, noting that salt went from 90 to 128 cruzeiros a kilo in August alone. Some Brazilians hold two and sometimes three jobs to make ends meet. Hardly anyone has money to save. Every extra cruzeiro is socked into time payments for autos, refrigerators, TV sets and other nonperishable inflation hedges that hold their value...
...dandy sketches Hoby the Bootmaker, an insolent St. James Street shopkeeper who sneered at every customer up to and including the Iron Duke himself; Colonel Kelly of the First Foot Guards, a grand dandy so proud of his precious, gleaming boots that he burned to death trying to save them from a fire; and muscular Dan Mackinnon, who "used to amuse his friends by creeping over the furniture like a monkey." In Lisbon with Lord Byron, Mackinnon spied two nude Portuguese beauties at their morning ablutions across from his hotel, but he was horrified to see that they used...