Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Oscar Gestido declared his fourth devaluation of the peso since taking office last March. This time he used strong medicine: he cut the exchange rate to 102%, for the first time setting it at a realistic level in hopes of expanding trade and restoring confidence in the peso. Sure enough, Uruguayans began flipping their mattresses over and taking their hoarded supply of dollars to the banks to switch them for pesos...
...general (played with quaint and artful foxiness by Anthony Quayle) comes home from liquidating the white man's bumbling in Malaysia, only to find that his son and daughter have become neoprimitive natives of swinging England. His daughter (Margaret Linn) is complacently pregnant-by whom, she cannot be sure. His bearded guitar-laden son (Sam Waterston) looks "like a leftover from the Last Supper," and his so-called mistress is a breastless, hipless, bass-voiced androgyne. Ultimately, the general goes his filial foes one better at anarchic nonconformity by growing a beard himself, living in a tree and mastering...
...Bryant Hall at Alabama, and it is unique at Harvard. But if you look closely you find a pattern that describes the average senior conglomeration: varying personalities with underlying common interests. And in the best House system tradition, there is a cross-section of sorts, ranging here from a sure-bet All-Ivy to a seldom-playing assistant coach's assistant...
...finished third, ahead of seven incumbents. And Duehay, assistant dean of the Ed School, led the pack of 18 candidates for the School Committee with 3966 votes. Equally important, two of his fellow candidates also endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association were running second and fifth and looked like sure winners...
...fact, it was far from sure at the meeting that there would be a committee at all. Hoffmann called for a committee made up of students, Faculty members, and Administration officials to discuss who should be allowed to recruit on campus, the limits of acceptable debate, and the extent of University involvement in the Vietnam war. Hoffmann's motion also asked that recruitment here by controversial agencies and corporations be suspended while discussions took place...