Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Turbulent, seething, and immense difficulties have for many years plagued New York City. These problems are part of the reason why it is one of the most colorful and most fascinating cities in the world. I wouldn't trade the cramped, pol luted, noisy and ungovernable city for any purified and antiseptic community in the U.S. New York is vital, New York is exciting, and New York is obviously where it's happening, baby. It may be a mess, but it's a beautiful and thrilling mess...
...Brazil, another seven in Chile before returning home. Officially, she is returning a state visit to Britain three years ago by Chile's President Eduardo Frei. Unofficially, there are high hopes that the Queen's travels will help promote the exports that Britain needs to correct its trade balance. As the London Daily Mirror put it: "The production has been carefully worked out, and the leading lady has played the part before...
Sold under the trade name Palm-N'-Turn, the new containers are made of plastic and topped with a flexible cap fitted with luglike projections. The lugs fit snugly into notches in the neck of the container. To open one, an adult must press downward with the palm, then twist the cap open while the lugs are free. In recent tests, few children could do this, even when they saw jelly beans inside. Of 1,000,000 of the Palm-N'-Turn containers tested in Ontario, Canada, only 21 caps were pried free...
...plan to stay long enough to peel down to shirtsleeves. His mellow bari tone has a countrified accent that, no matter where he is, seems to come from somewhere else. And most of his 130 songs are plaints of a latter-day drifter. "Movin' is my stock in trade," he sings in For Lovin' Me. In Early Morning Rain, broke and marooned in an airport far from home, he sees a "big 707" on the runway...
...possible of course that without its comfortable berth in skilled trades and the Democratic Party and harrassed by an anti-labor law, the labor movement might regain the urgency it lost in the '30's. Labor might then become a suitably militant ally for blacks, students, and the poor. But more likely, with growth stifled, and membership yielding to automation, an already tired trade union movement will simply wither...