Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pocketbooks (v. only 20.5 billion, each worth 5.4?, ten years ago). From a $248 million foreign-trade gain in 1956, Brazil plummeted into a $97 million loss in 1957, a $166 million loss in 1958. Loan interest, loan repayments and massive installments on long-term debts this year will take a $338 million bite out of foreign exchange. Budget deficits were $214 million last year, $230 million the year before...
Last week, celebrating his 25th year as a columnist, sparrow-spry Lennie Lyons could take pleasure from the fact that he is as famous as many of his subjects, grosses some $90,000 a year. The seven-room Manhattan apartment he shares with his witty wife, Sylvia, and their four sons is cluttered with the trappings of the great: Hitler's telephone, a coffee table dented by a Ray Bolger tap dance, a copy of Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe inscribed, "To a REAL writer...
Conferring with helicopter people, Raytheon's scientists concluded that a sky station will have to leave the earth under ordinary chemical power and buzz its way up to the spot where the power beams come to a focus. Then its microwave-fueled engine will take over. Test prototypes will carry a human crew, but later models will be automatic. Once they have been maneuvered into the focal spot, they will be kept there by electronic devices which sense when they are beginning to drift out of it. If the supporting beam fails, the station will drift down gently, supported...
...that children or adults, in wheelchairs or standing, can work at them. There the children will grow bougainvillaea to climb a trellis. They will use other trellises for grapes, tomatoes, peas and sweet peas. Children learning to use artificial hands have already set out young plants that can take rough handling...
...Year. Last winter big (6 ft. 3 in., 250 Ibs.), outspoken Virgil Blossom, 52, was forced to leave town. Out of work for nearly six months (and still owed nearly $7,700 by Little Rock), Dr. Blossom has a new job: in July he will take over the semi-integrated schools of San Antonio, which sought him mainly for his talents as an organizer of new schools...