Word: tins
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...first postwar advocate of nonalignment, urging a "third position" as an alternative to joining the blocs led either by the U.S. or the Soviet Union. He conducted a vociferous anti-U.S. campaign, alleging that there was a "gigantic North American plot" to seize Cuban sugar, Bolivian tin, Chilean copper and Central American bananas. To the dismay of South America's upper classes, Perón encouraged the growth of labor unions all over the continent...
After his senior year, during which he directed "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Rubins left Cambridge for a year. He spent the sabbatical from Harvard drama directing and writing children's theater in the forests of Maine...
That night, at the dinner he gave for Sadat at the Ras el Tin Palace, the President basked in the memory of his remarkable reception in Alexandria. "There is an old saying," Nixon told Sadat, "that you can turn people out but you can't turn them on. There was no question about the people that we saw yesterday and today-they were from their hearts giving us a warm welcome -and I can assure you, Mr. President, they touched our hearts, and I am sure the hearts of millions of Americans who saw that welcoming on television...
...watched the motorcade pass by was composed of Syrian refugees from the Golan Heights. The tough-looking young soldiers that guarded the airport and roads were armed with Russian-made AK-47s. Nixon's limousine also swept by a Palestinian refugee camp composed of grim, concrete-block and tin-roofed buildings...
Died. Daniel Reid (Dan) Topping Sr., 61, heir to tin-plate millions and an owner of the New York Yankees for 21 years; of emphysema; in Miami. A topflight amateur golfer in his 20s, Topping bought a piece of the Yankees in 1945, became co-owner and president two years later. He caused major rhubarbs by firing two pillars of the Yankee dynasty, Managers Casey Stengel and Yogi Berra, but won 14 American League pennants before quitting the front office in 1966. Sleek, perennially tanned, Topping was married six times (to Actress Arline Judge and Skater Sonja Henie, among others...