Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conquistadores in his veins, Beltran stopped the money presses. He collected neglected taxes, trimmed excess bureaucracy, encouraged exports, curbed imports. The sol steadied, the balance of trade shifted to favorable, debts were paid. Progress is still slow, but enough projects for housing, road building and agrarian reform are taking shape to give Peruvians hope-and to warrant businesslike consideration of a Prado request last week for $29.6 million in emergency loans from Kennedy's Alliance for Progress...
...Cecilia Douras, daughter of a small-time New York politician, she was still in her teens; her convent education had stopped some years earlier. But Hearst bought a Harlem studio, established his own film company, hired tutors and drama coaches, the best scenarists, set designers, and directors to help shape his Galatea. For the opening of her first film, Cecilia of the Pink Roses, in 1918, he had the theater ventilating system loaded with attar of roses, bathing the audience in florid scent. His newspapers, of course, hailed the new star's birth with eight-color superlatives in reviews...
...Waste. Nobody swings for the fence with more abandon than husky (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) Roger Maris: more than one-third of his hits are homers. Slow rounding into shape last spring, Maris did not hit his first home run until the Yankees' tenth game. But then he began hitting them in bunches: nine in 13 games in May, 15 in June. When he reached 50 on Aug. 22-with 38 games still to play-Maris became the biggest news in baseball. New York tabloids offered cash prizes for predictions of which days Maris would hit a homer...
...Everything considered," mused a top Government economist last week, "the economy is in amazingly decent shape. When you think about the political and international strains that have tugged at it, progress has been phenomenal...
...Costs No More), he has waged incessant war against what he considers bad design. One of his targets was none other than New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art; he was distressed by the museum's pride in a gold cup made by Benvenuto Cellini in the shape of an ornate shell resting on a dragon riding on a turtle. Shudders Gump: "It's really pretty horrible...