Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accounted for two dogs and a pig. Termites fell into the wine during a Congolese banquet, and his entourage brushed their teeth with beer rather than risk the water. Humphrey handed out tickets to the U.S. Senate gallery to Liberian youngsters and implied in Kinshasa that he would seek a second vice-presidential term, promising Congolese President Joseph D. Mobutu to wear a leopard-skin cap on the campaign trail...
...College's 12,000-ton Empire State IV, a refitted troop transport, churns out toward the open sea; a lab class in horticulture at Cobleskill crossbreeds African violets. Future fashion designers cut patterns in Manhattan's garment district at the Fashion Institute of Technology, while future policemen seek an edge over criminals by studying at a criminology lab on Long Island...
Like many of his own students, Sam Gould represents the first generation of his family to seek and get a college degree. He grew up in Connecticut's Housatonic valley, where his Lithuanian-born father was a wholesaler of paper, twine and groceries in the small towns of Ansonia and Shelton. It was not a wealthy family, and Sam worked at odd jobs to save money for college-only to discover that his father, in hopes of doubling the investment, had lost it all on a stock-market fling...
Nonetheless, ABC greeted Geneen's news with what Vice President James C. Hagerty called "a sort of relief." After all, the ITT deal pretty much constrained the network from seeking other sources of help. Now free to maneuver, ABC may well issue new securities to raise the capital it needs. More likely, it will seek out new merger partners. Two possibilities: General Electric Co. and Litton Industries, both of which expressed interest in the network before ITT came on the scene...
...scene is London, with its wild ways and "soopah" swingers, where Lynn and Rita have come from the provinces to seek fame and fortune. En route to both, there is much stumbling into mud puddles, through roofs and down excavations. There is a paint-spraying scene in one restaurant and a pie-throwing scene in another (both of which seem endless), and a clumsy take-off of an art preview, in which mechanized sculpture chases people around and sprays some more paint on them...