Word: ters
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...chairman of the policymaking N.A.A.C.P. board of directors in 1960, Weaver has never been a picket-line, front-line fighter in the civil rights movement. His role has been, in his words, that of "a liberal rather than a Negro; I feel that black chauvinism is no bet ter than white chauvinism...
Swift's insight still applies-246 years later-as few statesmen understand bet ter than the Group of Ten, a blue-ribbon panel of finance ministers and central-bank governors from Belgium, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Sweden and the U.S. The group will shortly meet again in Paris, with its sights set on reaching a compromise agreement by March...
Stirring the dust that has settled over Canadian politics, Liberal Prime Minis ter Lester B. Pearson last week announced the biggest Cabinet overhaul of any government since World War II. Of 25 ministries, ten were reorganized. Five ministers were shifted out of their jobs into new ones, and five old faces, two of them touched by the scandals that rocked Pearson's Cabinet last year, were replaced altogether. Said Pearson bluntly: "The nature of governmental problems is altering to a dramatic degree. These changes are designed to improve efficiency and better serve the needs of the Canadian people...
When the American Football League set up shop in 1960 as challenger to pro football's prosperous National Football League, skeptics gave the rookie league the actuarial chances of Weeping Wa ter State Teachers facing the Chicago Bears. The A.F.L.'s players were mostly second-rate collegians, or castoffs from Canada and the N.F.L. - and the sandlot football they played bore scant resemblance to the tightly disciplined N.F.L. brand. That first ' season, one team scored four touchdowns in 20 min. to salvage a 38-38 tie; another opened up a 30-0 half-time lead, still...
...Edgard Varese, 81, Paris-born avant-garde composer, whose ear-shattering attempts (with sirens, sleigh bells, clanking chains) to extend the boundaries of music beyond conventional instruments went unnoticed until the mid-1950s, when the noisy young composers of electronic music "rediscovered" him and hailed him as their mas ter; of complications following surgery; in Manhattan...