Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nations, submitted a resolution calling for Israel's unconditional withdrawal but not condemning her as the aggressor. Nepal, Peru, Ireland and Argentina, among others, supported the U.S. view that any withdrawal must be accompanied by an Arab agreement to live in peace with Israel. Nigeria offered a complicated scheme to turn Israeli-occupied Arab border areas into neutral buffer zones...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m). Don Murray, Inger Stevens, Barry Nelson and Fritz Weaver are featured in The Borgia Stick (1967), the story of a crime syndicate's scheme to invade big business...
...peasants wondered later why the magic did not work when they, too, faithfully stretched them over bamboo. Even so, the test appears successful enough for India's new Health Minister, Dr. Sripati Chandrasekhar, who holds a Ph.D. in demography from New York University, to try out the scheme on a nationwide basis in September. The Health Ministry is negotiating with such large firms as Lipton, Imperial Tobacco, Hindustan Lever, Union Carbide, and Tata Oil Mills Co. to handle distribution. The companies do not expect enormous profits from the birth control sideline, but they see it as a useful demonstration...
After 15 weeks of frantic planning, Sandorff's 21 senior and graduate engineering students worked out a complex scheme that they-and their instructor -believe would save the world from collision with an onrushing asteroid...
...Wayne in his 162nd film. As inevitable as death and Texas, Wayne again plays a hard-nosed, soft-spoken loner-a once-wealthy rancher whose gold-filled land has been stolen in a swindle. Back he comes, seeking revenge with four men foolhardy enough to join him in a scheme to restore his riches: a leathery gunfighter (Kirk Douglas); an outlaw Indian (Howard Keel); an alcoholic kid (Robert Walker) whose favorite mixture is whisky and nitroglycerin; and a wagon-driving double agent (Keenan Wynn) who moonlights for Wayne and sunlights for the other side...