Word: sions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the most perfect captive audience in all America is the one that steps into an elevator, watches the door slide shut, and then listens to a piped-in ver sion of Surrey with the Fringe...
What Europe's youth is looking for is a truly New Europe united by the values of her common heritage, based on the principles of democracy, strong enough to fulfill her historic task: to overcome the dreadful divi sion of this Continent...
...guide to the amount of fat in the blood, it is a crude and unreliable measure: it varies with exercise and whatever drugs the patient may have taken; it depends on whether he has been nibbling snacks or eating three meals a day. It changes with his emotional ten sion (how worried is he about this test?), and even with the amount of tourniquet pressure on his arm when the nurse draws a blood sample...
...presidential assistant, tried several drafts. Another former Harvard professor, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (now Ambassador to India) contributed a memo. Presidential Aide Ted Sorensen, a longtime Kennedy speechwriter, put together a separate draft, which, with some sprinklings from Schlesinger and Galbraith, became the basis of the final ver sion. Kennedy himself devoted hours to rewriting the speech, and he was still jotting away on the speaker's platform at Yale when the moment came for him to step forward...
...grounds of age alone. Dictator Franco. 69, could hardly delay his deci sion much longer; moreover, with workers restive enough to defy his sternest no-strike decrees, it was time that Spain's 30 million people were given some inkling of what lies ahead when the Franco era ends. The monarchy seemed certain to return - at least for a while - but would Franco bring back from exile the Pretend er Don Juan, 48, or would he give the nod to Don Juan's son, Juan Carlos? Don Juan has rarely been in Franco's good graces since...