Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handsome Philippine Capitol at Malacañan Palace, where President Magsaysay enjoys shaking hands with visitors, tours through the tropical countryside which include a look at native dancing and cockfighting plus a whopping big Filipino meal (a barbecued pig, prawns, coconut ice cream eaten out of a coconut shell). One local delicacy for the daring: balut, a duck egg ready to hatch...
...have all the comforts of home, but in the provinces tourists should be prepared for hard beds, little heat and no inside plumbing. Japanese food is generally heartier than Chinese cooking, with tender steaks and sizzling sukiyaki, a thin-sliced beef dish cooked at tableside. Things to buy: tortoise shell, pearls, lacquerware, porcelain, embroidered kimonos, art, furs, cameras, binoculars...
...camaraderie. Yet something about Harris always rankles in the back of Loggins' mind, something growing out of their backgrounds. Harris has an easy, aristocratic assurance bred on a large Southern cotton plantation; Loggins has the inbred insecurity of a boy reared in an orphanage and the tough-guy shell of an officer commissioned in the field...
...stretches a helping hand to anyone with a "reasonable" chance of success, will shell out millions for airplanes or thousands to buy a truck. In 1955 alone, Ex-Im authorized $371.1 million worth of individual loans, also handed out general lines of credit worth another $15-1-9 million to 130 U.S. exporters. An Argentine company got $60 million for a new steel mill; a Brazilian company got $1,222,000 for new U.S. buses; customers in Peru, Thailand, Turkey. Greece, Italy. Egypt borrowed funds ranging from $20 million down to $5,000 for everything from hospital equipment to coal...
Special Conception. In many respects little (5 ft. 5 in.) Jimmy Hoffa and the man whose throne he seeks are cut from the same pattern. Both Beck and Hoffa are blocky, apparently tireless men who shun liquor and tobacco. Both operate with the hard-shell pragmatism of 19th century coal barons. Alongside Jimmy Hoffa, however, the table-pounding Beck appears a mild-mannered...