Word: seals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answers might soon show up in Brussels, where another round had begun in the negotiations on Britain's Common Market membership. As De Gaulle and Macmillan met, the mood in Brussels was distinctly-though perhaps only temporarily-improved. As the proceedings began, Britain's Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath set the tone. "Well, shall we begin the Dance of the Seven Veils?" he cracked in a reference to seven complicated problems that must be resolved for British membership...
Phase Two: Move to the Right. This surge of Communist power alarmed the Eisenhower Administration, then engaged in trying to help President Ngo Dinh Diem of neighboring South Viet Nam preserve a pro-Western government against Red aggression. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had tried to seal off Southeast Asia by building the SEATO pact and encouraging anti-Communist allies. The U.S. Ambassador to Laos, J. Graham Parsons, distrusted Premier Souvanna Phouma both as a neutralist and a compromiser with the Reds. Withholding U.S. economic aid was enough to cause Souvanna's downfall, and he was replaced...
...started managed to last the punishing 500-mile distance. A minor melee on the 19th lap knocked four cars out of the race, sent Driver Jack Turner to the hospital with a broken hip and a cracked toe. An early dropout was the 1961 winner, A.J. Foyt, whose Bowes Seal Fast Special threw a wheel at the 75-mile mark. The early leader, Parnelli Jones-who earned the pole position with a dazzling qualifying speed of 150.370 m.p.h., first time anyone has lapped the 2½-mile track in less than 60 sec.-lost his brakes after 310 miles, wound...
...even good news could arrest the drop. Oxford Paper and Sundstrand Corp. (machine tools) proudly posted dividend increases-and the stock of both companies continued to fall. Crown Cork & Seal trumpeted a 25% rise in secondquarter profits; next day, its stock plunged 3 points...
...center"), the Porcupine Man, or the Bird Girl with "skin as rough as a turkey's foot and a downy fuzz of body hair." Says Eagle: "If somebody now is born with short arms, you don't put him in a sideshow and bill him as the Seal Boy or the Frog Boy; you try to make his arms as normal as possible...