Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...total gold and foreign exchange reserves have also dropped from $351 million to $185 million-only a shade more than those of Morocco. The military men who half-run Argentina behind a civilian facade have promised elections to return the country to constitutional rule, but are as hesitant to step aside as they were once eager to step in. Their problem is still the same as when they deposed President Frondizi a year ago: how to keep the 3,000,000 followers of exiled Dictator Juan Perón from taking over the country. When the Peronistas were allowed...
...Friedrichstrasse crossing point for foreigners, Meixner stalled his motor scooter near the peppermint-striped steel beam that closes the last exit in the Wall. Pretending to have engine trouble, he measured the height of the barrier, found that it was only 37½ in. from the ground. His next step was to search the car rental agencies in West Berlin for a sports car small enough to slip under the beam. He finally decided on an Austin Healey Sprite, which, without its windshield, measured 35½ in. high. Meixner confided in another young Austrian, gave him an exact timetable...
...said yes-and in English. Promptly Fuller-Sandys called on her gnarled father, an aged and respected laborer on the place. Naturally. Fuller-Sandys handed over a bride price ($100); then Fuller-Sandys slipped a diamond engagement ring on Margaret's finger. It was a brave step in white-ruled Southern Rhodesia. Immediately the government fired Fuller-Sandys as an adviser in the Native Affairs Department, curtly explaining: "You cannot administer Africans and sleep with them." Of 48 white friends Fuller-Sandys invited to the wedding last week, 34 sent their regrets. The beaming bride, carrying a bouquet...
...columnists, ranging downward from Walter Lippmann to Count Marco, a no-count native of Pittsburgh whose real name is Marco Spinelli. In "Beauty and the Beast," Marco offers advice to females, mostly matrons interested in getting their husbands interested again, and once recommended: "Take a bath with your husband. . . . Step daintily into the bubble-filled tub. Mon Dieu, this is no time to bend over." Newest addition to the growing throng is Society Columnist Frances Moffatt, who after eleven years as chief chitchatterer for the Examiner, gave the paper notice one Monday and flounced off to a champagne reception...
Critics have often remarked on the compassionate, unmitigatingly democratic attitude of James toward his fellow men. With justice we might extrapolate to his fellow animals. And in Human Immortality (his Ingersoll Lectures) he carries his sympathies a step further: "I am willing that every leaf that ever grew in this world's forests and rusted in the breeze should become immortal...