Word: spectacularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show business, but never really made the grade. Unlike the New York Fair, Expo got accreditation from Paris' choosy Bureau of International Expositions, which demands that each nation pays for its own exhibition. At Montreal, more than 70 nations are represented, and their pavilions are already rising in spectacular steel and concrete. Opening day is next April...
...Inside Report" occasionally suffers from the fault of making too much out of too little. Evans and Novak were plainly alarmist when they rather breathlessly predicted a "spectacular mass killing" to be staged by the Viet Cong in Saigon before this fall's elections. Yet it is the nature of their column to prepare readers to expect the worst. "It's been said of us that we seldom have anything nice to say about anybody," says Evans. "This is basically true. We are interested in arrangements, deals, quid pro quos. We try to shed light on the subterranean...
Gush of Oil. For the funds, this has been the year of the big switch. Many have selectively sold off glamour stocks and cyclical shares (autos, steels, non-ferrous metals), which swing along with the ups and downs of the economy. They have gone into more solid, less spectacular "defense" shares that stand to grow with the U.S. population, such as food manufacturers, electric utilities, oils and insurance companies...
...after a dismal season last year, may be ready to repeat the sophomore performance which placed him second in Ivy League foil standings. A fast and precise fencer, Musliner won the New England intercollegiates last year but did poorly in Ivy competition because of "the psychological disadvantage of a spectacular sophomore year," Marion said. This fall, Musliner placed second in the New England Amateur Open, where two U.S. Olympians competed...
...letter noted the spectacular rise in world population and warned that "man's future is threatened less by rampant disease than by unbridled reproduction." It concluded that "man's responsibility to the next generation includes a primary duty to limit that generation's size...