Word: sol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Presuming you're the sort who'd buy an Edsel from a used car dealer, or oil stock from Billie Sol Estes and can extend that old willing suspension of disbelief to a rough and tumble World War II setting I think I may have just the movie...
...effect of Belaúnde's leadership was to make 1964 the best year ever for Peru's economy. Exports-chiefly fish meal, cotton, copper, sugar and iron ore-jumped 25% to a record $665 million, the G.N.P. rose an impressive 12%, and the sol (3.7?) remained one of South America's most stable currencies. On Lima's outskirts, General Motors is completing Peru's first auto-assembly plant, a $5,000,000 operation that will enable Peruvians to buy autos without paying duties that go to 110% on most U.S. models. Fourteen other automakers...
During his trial on charges of swinging fellow Texans-to say nothing of assorted banks and financing companies-Billie Sol Estes objected vehemently to the presence of TV cameras in the courtroom. His objections were overruled: Estes was convicted and sentenced to eight years. In agreeing to consider his appeal last week, the Supreme Court did not concern itself with Billie Sol's guilt or innocence. The sole question before the court is whether his unwilling TV performance prejudiced his right to a fair trial...
Voluntary Codes. Whatever the Supreme Court's decision in the Billie Sol Estes appeal, the television industry has yet to demonstrate the ability to render the TV camera as unobtrusive a court visitor as the pen-and-pencil newsman And whatever view the Justices take about the big eye's right to be considered a court reporter, their ruling promises to have powerful impact on the profession of journalism, which is jealously possessive of its freedom...
...total of 62 needle-nosed Mirage IV bombers to tote the Gaullist bombette at a relatively slow 1,200 m.p.h. over a range of 1 ,000 miles. When the Mirages fade into obsolescence around 1968-69, they will be supplanted by SSBS missiles (the sibilant stands for sol-sol-balistique-strategique, or ground-to-ground-ballistic-strategic), to be lodged in hard-base silos in France. With a range of 1,800 miles, the two-stage SSBS missile will pack a warhead in the megaton range, making it roughly the equivalent of the already operational Polaris missile, smallest...