Word: earlier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Earlier, L.B.J. had exuberantly welcomed Díaz Ordaz to Washington for his first state visit there and their fifth meeting. "I want you to feel at home in my house, as I do in yours," L.B.J. beamed at his friend. This accentuated mood of friendship prevailed, although in a speech before Congress Díaz Ordaz sternly warned against protectionist trade tendencies in the U.S. But the visit's highlight was clearly the celebration of the Chamizal affair's settlement...
...Yadin dates the scroll from 50 B.C. to the beginning of the 1st century A.D., but adds that it might be a copy of a work written earlier during the Second Temple period. "From the external evidence," he says, "it is apparent that the author definitely wanted his scroll to be taken as the law of God." Unlike all other apocryphal writings of the time, the new scroll is written as though the Creator himself is speaking. In other Qumran texts, the word God is written in a distinctive script, a reminder that the sacred name is too holy...
...earlier investigations of the series, the tone was sometimes indignant. This time, appropriately, there was an aura of bemusement too, an awareness that vanity often takes precedence over common sense. Asked Narrator Dick McCutchen: "If you feel that a $10 jar of something or other has made you look dazzling, and we tell you that it couldn't have possibly made any difference, except in your mind, does it mean that you have wasted your money...
...million, because of a shorter changeover period in which the new models were tooled up. Chrysler earnings were $26.8 million v. $6,500,000 last year on a rise in sales from $1.1 billion to $1.3 billion; the increase in profits came about because of the earlier start on new-model production, economies ordered by Chairman Lynn Townsend, and the sell-off of a large inventory of cars. Both G.M. and Chrysler, late in the quarter, were helped to some degree by the U.A.W. strike against Ford...
...into the fastest growing segment of the investment field by filing for Securities and Exchange Commission registration of a $5,000,000 open-end mutual fund, the L. M. Rosenthal Fund. Having bought seats on the American and Boston stock exchanges as well as on the Big Board earlier this year, the company has also moved into stock trading, research and investment advice for large (accounts over $100,000) clients. In the over-the-counter market, it regularly deals in the shares of some 400 companies...