Word: vests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resented his government's blatant corruption. At least five attempts have been made to assassinate him. Nkrumah's answer was to crack down even further, increase his security guard-and to retreat behind the four walls of his palace. He reportedly took to wearing a bullet-proof vest, nervously kept five bullet-proof Rolls-Royces ready to carry him around Accra, waiting until the last minute to choose the one he would ride...
Sydney P. Marland Jr., 51, came to Pittsburgh's 77,000-pupil school system from such relatively vest-pocket operations as Darien, Conn, and Winnetka, Ill. Since September 1963, Marland has demonstrated that this did not di minish his ability to think big. The chief elements of his Pittsburgh plan: - TEAM TEACHING. As in other schools, a group of half a dozen or more teachers work together with a large group of children. "But team teaching is more a spirit than a thing," says Marland. He finds that since teachers can be more creative, teaching in slum areas becomes...
...assignment brought warm memories of family: his father, the great Russian basso Feodor Chaliapin, was a close friend of Rubinstein's in Europe many years ago. Between them, for reasons only they really know, painter and pianist decided on the rather unusual garb of red coat and vest for the portrait. And why is the piano green? "You don't have to see it green," said Chaliapin. "It is black; perhaps it was an artistic liberty I took. Perhaps I thought that in that light, with the red jacket, the piano looked more green than black. The same...
...months; his third and fourth wives were the same woman-Joyce Matthews. In recent years, the grain of sand decided to leave the public eye, but there was no getting out, or no need to, for that matter. Rose had traded his Broadway sports jacket for a Wall Street vest. He owned 160,000 shares of AT&T which made him the company's biggest single stockholder. In a rising market, his paper profits on AT&T and other holdings felt more like velvet; Rose calculated that between October 1963 and February 1964 they came...
...Gaulle and Mitterrand, whom Frenchmen call "le beau Francois" for his looks, "le Florentin" for his political suppleness. One of eight children of a Cognac railroad clerk, Mitterrand climbed to prominence through sheer brilliance and an inborn political knack for being all things to all people. Though his vest-pocket party, the left-of-center Democratic Socialist Union of the Resistance, has never amounted to much, his adaptability shoehorned him into no fewer than eleven revolving coalition Cabinets of the Fourth Republic. For at least two of his Cabinet stints, Mitterrand is given high marks...