Word: two-year-old
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Greek-born Christopher, 57, came to the U.S. as a two-year-old, rose from the tenements to amass a modest fortune as one of northern California's biggest independent dairy distributors. A city supervisor for ten years before becoming mayor, Christopher made his political personality as familiar to northern Californians as his milk bottles. He was a leading Rockefeller supporter in the 1964 presidential primary, whereas Southern California's Reagan made a name as a Goldwater speechmaker-a difference that Christopher emphasized, along with Reagan's lack of administrative experience, on a ten-city, hat-tossing...
...several provisions of the Higher Education Act that could apply to Harvard, but the University has so far expressed no intention of making use of them. The provision for subsidizing cooperation between rich and "struggling" colleges, for example might be used to give financial support to Harvard's two-year-old Miles College Project of informal teacher and student exchanges. Or Harvard might ask for funds under the "community services" title of the Act to improve and expand its program of extension courses or, possibly, to subsidize PBH tutoring programs...
Nasser's efforts have been not without success. Last week, because of the "rapid deterioration of the security situation in Aden," Whitehall suspended the colony's two-year-old constitution, fired Chief Minister Abdul Qawee Mackawee, 46, and his 23-man Legislative Council, and turned control back to Her Majesty's High Commissioner Sir Richard Turnbull...
China was already reaping rewards. New Delhi claimed the ultimatum was proof positive that Mao Tse-tung and Ayub Khan were plotting the destruction of India. Even so, India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri tried to stave off war by belatedly agreeing to a two-year-old Chinese offer to have a Sino-Indian inspection team decide whether the fortifications were in China or Sikkim. No one had much hope the offer would be accepted...
...mothers turning on this summertime Santa? Complains one Lynn, Mass., housewife: "I wouldn't mind those trucks if they didn't always come at the wrong time. I just get my two-year-old to sleep in the afternoon when those damn chimes begin to sound." Adds another: "Once the ice cream man has been around, I can't get my children to eat anything. Two fudgesicles and dinner is out the window." Some people do not mind when the ice cream man cometh so much as how. The four-bar Good Humor tune that daily wafts...