Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force lieutenant who won the D.F.C. in Korea, and later became a crack pilot with Claire Chennault's Formosa-based Civil Air Transport, Pope worked himself back into top shape teaching his Indonesian guards judo, and read enough law books in prison to help conduct his own defense (he thought he was fighting international Communism, he said). But U.S. Ambassador Howard Jones publicly regretted that an American "paid soldier of fortune" had become involved in the fighting (a witness quoted Pope as saying the rebels paid him $10.000 a month for his work...
...there was no such complaint as President Patty, 65, announced his own retirement in favor of William Ransom Wood, 53, academic vice president of the University of Nevada. All things considered, the nation's northernmost campus (100 miles south of the Arctic Circle) has never been in better shape...
...Billion Expansion. What started the rumors of a bigger dividend? Nothing more than a hope among Wall Streeters. They reasoned that since A.T. & T. was in the best cash shape in years, it should be able to pass on a boost to stockholders. No such luck. President Kappel said that A.T. & T. needs the cash for expansion. In 1960, said he, A.T. & T. plans to spend $2.6 billion on capital improvements, the largest sum ever...
...Brazil's flashy modern architecture, won the contest for a master city plan. While others submitted blueprints and models, Costa sketched on five sheets of paper what one judge, Britain's Sir William Holford, called "a city with solutions, not problems, built in." Says Costa: "The shape of Brasilia was born out of the simple gesture of a man who indicates a place or marks it as his own: two lines crossing at right angles...
Ninotchka (ABC, 8:30-10 p.m.).* The hat-happy comrade whose first incarnation was Greta Garbo returns in the shape of Cinemactress Maria Schell. Costars: Gig Young, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mischa Auer...