Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still the Cuban's biggest gripe. The monthly rice allowance is down to 3 Ibs. per person, meat to ½Ib. Men are allowed only one new shirt and pair of trousers a year; women, one new dress a year, if available. Because of a similar shortage of spare parts, appliances and machines are constantly breaking down. Anything that does run fetches a capitalist's ransom. A nine-year-old G.E. refrigerator that "still cools" brought $2,000 in Havana recently; a rusted-out 1960 Buick went for $10,400-despite the fact that severe gas rationing keeps...
Zubin's father, Mehli Mehta, was Bombay's leading musician, a violinist who played dinner music at the Taj Mahal Hotel, in his spare time served as conductor of the Bombay Symphony. Little wonder, then, that Zubin says he was "brainwashed with classical music from the cradle." He had his own record player when he was two years old, later crouched wide-eyed in the corner during his father's lessons and chamber-music rehearsals. With his retentive memory and faultless ear, he was soon whistling Paganini caprices in the original key while riding his bike...
Ferber has broken quite a few laws in the last several years. He spent most of his spare time as an undergraduate at Swarthmore College working in the civil rights movement in Chester, Pa., through the then embryonic Students for a Democratic Society. Their goal was to clean up some of the "wretched conditions" in some of the city's nearly all-Negro public schools...
...boys now," said William Bernbach, chairman of Doyle Dane Bernbach, which carries the over $6,000,000 Avis account. Now, D.D.B. has counted 47 bugs that plague car renters and pledged to do battle against them throughout 1968. The latest effort features such creatures as the flat-spare bug, the wobbly-mirror bug and the mirror-smearer bug-which "multiply like mad if left alone." In a really competitive business, explains Avis President Winston Morrow, service is the ultimate weapon...
...Hamil began to talk. And I discovered he had been lying through his teeth when he had talked peace before, for he now denounced peace and relayed his country's decision to move their troops against Outland. Though a poor country, Hamil had more than enough men to spare...