Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dillon is already cleaning out his desk to leave by month's end, and three other top Treasury posts-Under Secretary, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, and General Counsel-are also vacant. Unless Johnson appoints some money men soon, the Treasury may be virtually empty at the top during a serious period for the dollar. There is the usual flock of other nominees-all of whom privately say, "Not me!" And some White House men insist that the President has not yet given up completely on Cook...
...exploded from 5,000 to 150,000 in the past 20 years. New taxis clog the city's streets, and neon signs wink brightly all night; hi-fi shops blare out cha chas; Indian mopsters sip beer and lethal-looking, yellow-green "Inca Kolas" and fill up vacant walls with "Vivan los Beatles...
...Clay. But the World Boxing Association is giving it a game try. The W.B.A. is anti-Black Muslim, anti-return-bout contracts and antinoise. It also controls what there is of boxing in 39 states (notable exceptions: California and New York). So last September it declared the heavyweight title vacant, and last week in Chicago it staged a new "world championship" fight between two harmless creatures named Ernie Terrell and Eddie Machen...
While even skillful cameramen cannot transform Bates's boringly vacant expressions, elsewhere the photography is superb. It captures the harshness of the landscape and the flowers which spring up at Easter time. And it focuses on the expressions of the people of Crete (thus listed in the credits...
...hours later, FBI men swept in, arrested Bowe at his home, Sayyed at his father's store, and Michelle at the Hotel Excelsior. New York police grabbed Collier at the Riverdale vacant lot as he and Wood arrived to pick up the dynamite. The four were charged with conspiring to destroy Government property, which carries a maximum penalty of $10,000 and ten years in prison. Collier was also charged with unlawful possession of explosives...