Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slapped on stiff new taxes and tolls, siphoned off graft to his cronies. To hold down the opposition, Duvalier set up a plainclothes gestapo of 5,000 men, called Tonton Macoute, or bogeymen, and in 1960 added a militia that now numbers 13,000. The two operate in chilling tandem, handling everything from shakedowns of merchants to the assassination of suspected anti-Duvalierists. Their biggest day came in 1961 when they helped Duvalier rig a phony election that extended his rule to 1967. Legally, his first six-year term should end this May 15, and as the date approaches, restlessness...
This combination, which has never played a match together in varsity competition, will be challenged for the top spot by the tandem of Ripley and Vic Niederhoffer, the second and third singles players. Three teams, are competing for the number three doubles spot...
...decisions and stunning achievements. In space, the U.S. creditably launched not only John Glenn but Telstar and Mariner II, but it was a team of anonymous Russian scientists who made the year's biggest space news by lofting the space twins, Nikolayev and Popovich, on record-breaking, three-day tandem orbits of the earth...
Cheaper Than Concubines. The brothers work in rare tandem. They share a joint bank account, have adjacent offices at Sir Elly Kadoorie & Sons. Ltd., which is named after their late father, an Iraqi Jew who became a naturalized British subject, went to Hong Kong in 1880 and carved out a fortune in land, rubber, banking and insurance. Together, the brothers sit on the boards of 36 major companies. Restless, sophisticated Lawrence Kadoorie, 63, has also been on several government administrative boards, pays particular attention to the power company, the biggest Kadoorie investment. He collects ancient Chinese art works because...
Exeter, though often mentioned in tandem with Andover, is significantly different. Exeter has put up only one new building in 30 years, but is richer (endowment: $35.2 million, book value). It began actively recruiting poor boys long before Andover. Though it gives fewer scholarships to fewer students, it gives bigger ones, reaches deeper into low-income groups...