Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dirksen, who was in the thick of nearly every fight on the bill, almost killed the entire package with his insistence on an amendment to permit self-employed persons to deduct up to $1,750 of gross income a year for payments to their own retirement pension plans-a proposal Kennedy hinted might bring a veto of the whole bill. To arguments that his provision should be treated separately, Dirksen replied: "If an egg is good, it is good whether it is served up alone or with a dozen other eggs; the measure is a good . egg." His amendment...
Died. Giovanni Achille Gaggia, 66, onetime Milanese cafe owner who put the press in espresso coffee in 1936 by adding a mechanical lever to his old drip machine to pressure hot water, steam and coffee into the thick syrupy brew that became an Italian specialty, after World War II started the first manufacture of pressure coffee machines; of complications following a fall; in Milan...
...pioneers of the renaissance of European tapestry and is represented by twin tapestries, inspired by a visit to Tahiti, called Polynesia: The Sea and The Sky. Poland commissioned five original designs, considered by many the most interesting tapestries in the show because of their crude, rough-woven finish of thick wool sometimes interlaced with straw. Also highly praised was the Japanese technique of Tsuzure-Nishiki demonstrated by Hirozo Murata's silk and gold Hunting, a scene of horsemen with bows and arrows. In Tsuzure-Nishiki tradition, Japanese weavers compress the weft as it is woven into tapestry, using their...
...Government's stockpiling program under the Eisenhower Administration. Symington has enthusiastically built up charges that Cleveland's giant M. A. Hanna Co. made unconscionable profits out of a stockpiling deal. George Humphrey was Hanna's board chairman before entering the Eisenhower Cabinet; he held onto his thick portfolio of Hanna stock while in public office, and he returned to the company as honorary chairman upon leaving Washington...
...mighty blast echoed deep inside towering Mont Blanc (alt. 15.781 ft.) last week, and a thick wall of rock crumbled in a dense cloud of smoke and dust. A mile and a half down in the Alpine depths, tunnel workers from Italy and from France scrambled over the settling debris to meet in grimy embrace and exchange flags, helmets and undershirts. They cheered hoarsely: "Viva la Francia!" "Vive I'Italic!" Waterfalls & Soft Rock. It was the breakthrough for the world's longest vehicular tunnel, stretching 7.2 miles* beneath the icy, forbidding Alpine massif to join Courmayeur, Italy...