Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...closer examination, it was clear that there was more talk than trade in the Cuba-Canada picture. Despite a doubling of exports to Canada, from $809,000 in October 1959 to $1,675,000 in October 1960, Canada's shipments to Cuba for all 1960 were running $3,000,000 below 1959's $12 million. Castro's economic agents talked big deals, but so far have signed few contracts. A U.S. embassy official looked into reports that U.S. wheeler-dealers were sending embargoed goods to Canada, then transshipping them via the U.S. in sealed freight cars...
...Simplicity. This liturgical reform rejects the medieval practice that made the church service an awesome mystery and spectacle seen in deep perspective and culminating in the moment when, to the tinkling of bells, the Host and chalice are raised on high. As clergy and congregation have begun to draw closer together, it was almost inevitable that architects would sooner or later rediscover the church-in-the-round...
...vanished in Western Europe). If lucky, the hopeful traveler will only have to answer the 15 questions listed on the "simplified" application form, which asks the traveler to give his nationality, complexion, race and ethnic classification. One bewildered applicant answered race with "skiing and bobsledding." A French student came closer by stating that he belonged to the Latin race. The consular aide put him straight, telling him that he was a Caucasian. "I said I'd never heard of the Cauca sian race," reports the student, "but they told me that was beside the point. I asked what ethnic...
...critics almost unanimously applauded the show. If Producer Drew's technique is obviously not applicable to all themes, Yanki, No! is an exciting start in a series that promises to use pictures, rather than what Drew calls "word logic," in bringing TV closer to reality...
Harvard's "peace corps" plan, proposed by Messrs. Bramson, Eberly, and Sigmund several weeks ago, seems to be moving slowly toward some final form. It is no closer to official approval than when it was put forth, but the signs of University Hall interest are encouragingly great. The disturbing fact, particularly for the ten per cent of the senior class that has expressed a desire to participate, is that time will soon run out, if the University wants to start some sort of small scale program next fall...