Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twinkling. Meeting Díaz Ordaz in the middle of a bridge spanning the river, he exchanged abrazos with him, then helicoptered to the dam site. In a speech on the Mexican side, Johnson declared that the binational project, which will provide flood control and irrigation for the upper Rio Grande system, "sets a pattern which I hope will be increasingly repeated by neighboring countries throughout the hemisphere...
...throne, Journalist Iain Hamilton observes: "She was good on a horse, though; and we have Ben Jonson's word for it that princes learn no art truly but the art of horsemanship." As for Charles, it would be wrong to encourage him to be "an 'ordinary' upper-class young man and enjoy life among property speculators, advertising agents, public relations artists, fashion photographers, pop painters, dressmakers, atheistic Anglican prelates, pornographers, social scientists and other such heroes...
...their visions there are many-splendored pleasure domes that even an oil sheik could envy. "Imagine an airliner with a penthouse-with staterooms or offices," glowed two-page American Airlines ads showing interior sketches for its Boeing 747 models last week. "There will be a spiral staircase to the upper deck, room for a special theater section, and even a drawing room that can accommodate sofas and club chairs...
...full-time students" scores above 70 on the draft exam he will be safe as an undergraduate, while he must score above 80 to continue through graduate school. The other route lets a student stay in college if he can maintain an average which places him in a certain upper fraction of the class...
...grandson of an immigrant from southeastern Europe." In politics, write Harvard Professors Edward Banfield and James Wilson, "the perfect candidate, then, is of Jewish, Polish, Italian or Irish extraction and has the speech, dress, manner and the public virtues-honesty, impartiality, and devotion to the public interest-of the upper-class Anglo-Saxon...