Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain last week decided to take the big step and apply anew for membership in the six-nation Common Market. This means that Europe, and particularly Charles de Gaulle (who blackballed Britain's first application in 1963), must in turn decide whether to expand the Continental economic and trade community to seven members-and possibly to even ten or twelve, since Britain's fellow members in the European Free Trade Association are almost certain to try to follow...
...incriminating than concrete and stuffing, topped with a thin layer of pills. After two more arrests were made in New York, Assistant U.S. Attorney Irvin L. Ruzicka indicated that one way for bennies to get into the domestic black market is by simple diversion from the perfectly legal export trade...
...Puget Sound, Hunt traveled to school in Tacoma, Wash., on his father's 120-ft. steamboat Atalanta, earned pocket money steam-cleaning the vessel's brass spittoons. He quit high school after two years, blitzed through an accounting course and shipped out aboard a steamship plying trade with the Orient, eventually earning a master mariner's rating. After working on a pineapple plantation in Hawaii, Hunt returned home at 20 and set up a brief partnership in a Puget Sound ferry service. In 1927, he bluffed his way into a clerk's job at the Zellerbach...
...still miles to go, the free world last week moved measuredly closer to modernizing its overworked and undercapitalized monetary system. After five years of jockeying, financial negotiators for the first time agreed unanimously to work toward creating something to supplement gold, dollars and British pounds in bankrolling international trade and investment...
Lettvin put on a show of his own without slides. He asked himself whether he would trade places with Leary, who claimed he was ecstatic. "Why don't I? Is it love of the real world? Is it that my own ego would be destroyed?" Lettvin said he objected to LSD on moral grounds, since certain drugs cause permanent suspension of judgment. To opt for saying "so what?" he argued, was an unbearable decision...