Word: straws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INRA's work, spearheaded by idealistic young army officers, zealous female social workers and, as of last week, at least 70 Russian technicians, is having a deep effect. Said straw-hatted Luis Zaya, 31, jawing away a rainy afternoon on the porch of People's Store No. 9 in Pinar del Rio: "I'm 100% better. Before, there was no work. Now there's work all year. Now we are eating-rice, eggs, beans." Assured of $88 a month on his INRA coop, Zaya says: "If this is Communism, let it come...
...Rita is a good dancer . . . Curt Jurgens had a simple party at Cap Ferrat-twelve guests, the butler, the chauffeur, the cook, the secretary, one monkey, five parrots, and two dogs . . . Elsa Maxwell, looking like a weather-beaten hill, stood in the lobby of the Excelsior under a big straw hat which made it hard to tell what was front and what was back...
...Premier had the "evil eye." and was therefore responsible for such national disasters as the Agadir earthquake (12,000 dead). Then last week Ibrahim meddled in the close friendship between Crown Prince Moulay Hassan and U.S. Lieut. Commander Leon Blair. It was, said a palace courtier, "the last straw...
...perfect antidote for platinum poisoning"), Kinkaid, 65, has a reputation for driving his students, often summoned them to his house on weekends to play. He himself is so fascinated by the production of sound that he has been known to sit at a soda fountain blowing through a straw in an effort to alter its tone. Even after his retirement from the orchestra, he will continue to teach. His replacement: James Pellerite, formerly of the Detroit Symphony. He is, of course, a student of William Morris Kinkaid...
BICKS was soon a top assistant to Stanley Barnes, who headed the Antitrust Division. When Barnes left, Bicks became first assistant to a new head, Victor Hansen. Straw-bossing the department's 470-odd lawyers, clerks and economists while preparing and arguing the big cases himself, Bicks was the obvious choice ,for department chief when Hansen quit last year, and is not likely to have much trouble getting congressional approval. One fact that impresses Congress: his reputation for aggressive honesty. Says Bicks: "There is a certain luxury in not being talkable-to about a case. I make it clear...