Word: soon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your praise, O TIME, comes none too soon...
Since his car drove off the Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick, carrying Mary Jo Kopechne to her death, the scars of stress and self-doubt have etched themselves into Teddy Kennedy's face and affected his voice and actions. None of his friends expected him to regain his equilibrium soon. Now, among both friends and political intimates, who initially felt that his withdrawal from presidential contention and his expressed intention to remain in the Senate would suspend the harassments plaguing him, there is a growing fear that he is being driven from public life...
...single women. Bank officers had expected to enroll 2,200 young Houstonians in the first year, but that goal has already been reached and 500 new members are signing up each month. More surprising, they maintain an average balance of $250, and bank officers expect that the club will soon become profitable as well as promotional...
...Soon realizing that virtually all construction equipment had to be bought abroad, Quintana expanded by setting up, by himself or in cooperation with foreign firms, other companies to manufacture the materials and machinery he needed. Says Quintana: "ICA has become a mother-hen company that creates everything and has its own chickens and eggs around it." Among the results of that policy are Industria del Hierro, a machinery producer in Querétaro, and partnerships with a dozen European and U.S. firms-including Link-Belt Speeder Co., now a division of FMC Corp. of California...
...King Solomon's Mines, Captain Gilson's The Pirate Aeroplane, Anthony (The Prisoner of Zenda] Hope's Sophy of Kravonia and Marjorie Bowen's The Viper of Milan were among Greene's favorites. The shape of villainy, the sense of impending doom soon intrude. Captain Gilson's book was dominated by a bad "Yankee pirate with an aeroplane like a box kite and bombs the size of tennis balls." The Viper, he admits, gave him a permanent vision of "perfect evil walking the world where perfect good can never walk again, and only...