Word: summing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazil. In the conviction that Quadros, for all his eccentricity in foreign affairs, favors an economically sound and therefore healthy Brazil, Kennedy approved U.S. participation in an international aid program for Brazil that ranks as the biggest loan-grant package ever given a Latin American nation. The sum under discussion: $500 million, with more to come. Washington's only formal announcement was a brief statement by Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon noting that Brazil needs new funds for development and to consolidate its crushing debt. This week the secretary goes to Rio for a board meeting of the Inter...
...Castle of Otranto. All of this goes on in something that is not to be believed. The Kerr-Hilton, as Jean Kerr calls her home, is both the sum and summary of its contents, a brick and half-timber Tudor-Spanish architectural error on the edge of Long Island Sound. Like the Kerrs, it sits squarely in the suburbs, but its outlines are in fairyland. Built by a rich automotive inventor on the original foundations of the Larchmont Shore Club stables, it looks like the Castle of Otranto, reaching high with turrets and towers and a cupola. It also looks...
...tons daily made its way up to the hills. Vast quantities were bought up by fast operators, who resold it to better-fed lowland folk at bargain prices. This maneuver was facilitated by the Peruvian government's decision to sell the food. The idea of charging a small sum, as one Peruvian explained at the time, was "to keep the Indians from developing a tendency to work less." The only trouble was that most Indians live outside the money economy on what they themselves produce. The drought had left nothing to sell...
Camelot. Although less than the sum of its attractive parts, the Lerner and Loewe musical does provide dazzling sets, engaging music and Richard Burton...
...front door as the friend walks in the back. Off to a bar, he spots a little bit of all right (Shirley Anne Field), makes a date for picture night, spends the rest of Sunday fishing and elaborating his philosophy of love: "Marriage costs too much. A lump sum down and yer wages a week for life. Nobody's got to marry 'em to get 'em. Not if they're already married...