Word: talled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn it into soybean oil, which is used for everything from salad dressing to paint, and ship the oil abroad-either privately or through the many Government aid programs. Between 1958 and 1962, De Angelis built a sprawling refinery in Bayonne and leased 139 oil storage tanks, many as tall as five-story buildings. Operating in a slippery, fiercely competitive industry, he outdid other companies by buying the most modern equipment, paying the highest wages and putting in the lowest bids for Government export contracts. By 1962, he accounted for three-quarters of the nation's exports of soybean...
Died. David Smith, 59, noted U.S. metal sculptor, a onetime auto assembly-line welder who made an art of his trade with huge (up to 20 ft. tall), generally abstract creations, welding together metal bars, sheets, wheels, gears and grilles in a brilliant use of open form that, while long underestimated by the buying public, won him ranking by critics among such better-known sculptors as Calder, Moore and Giacometti; of a fractured skull suffered in an auto accident; in Albany...
...Battle of the Bulge. He is a particular protégé of Ailes's predecessor, Cyrus Vance, now Deputy Secretary of Defense and McNamara's right-hand man. Resor and Vance roomed together at Yale Law School and have been close friends ever since. Both are tall, sharp-featured, and tense in manner and speech. "Shut your eyes," says an Army Department aide, "and you think Resor is Vance talking...
Newspaper boys were still delivering Sunday morning papers when the door of the fashionable ten-room house on Gelfert Strasse opened and two people walked out into the sunlight. The man was tall and burly, his mane of dark wavy hair streaked with grey. His wife was plain and wore her dark blonde hair brushed back over her ears in a severe boyish bob. Absorbed in quiet argument, they walked along the tree-lined street to a neighborhood park, where they talked some more. Then, arm in arm, they returned to the house, and the man bade his wife farewell...
...Mahdi's legend lives on. Victorious in the Sudan's first free elections after six years of military rule was his 29-year-old great-grandson, Sadik el Mahdi, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), bearded economist who took honors at Oxford. In a conservative electoral sweep, El Mahdi's Umma (Nation) Party won the biggest block of seats in the new National Assembly, which will convene next month. Two other Moslem conservative groups were its only serious competition. The tightly organized Communists were defeated in the few contests they entered...