Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Factor. Such investigations into the causes and treatment of mental retardation are being greatly intensified. But the Kennedy Foundation's current awards, totaling a lavish $200,000, went for research done long ago and for work in caring for the millions of current victims. The winners...
...weeks, Cuban billboards, radio and television trumpeted the need for volunteers, promising lavish vacations to champion choppers. "My dear," a husband chirruped to his wife on a Havana soap opera, "when I go to the cane field and really work for my country, all my aches and pains disappear." Every village, factory, business, union and government agency received a quota, and any Cuban who failed to heed the call risked losing his job. Out they came last week, 1,000,000 strong, nearly paralyzing by their absence every government agency and private business. In the swing with Castro were...
With an intimate score only partially realized, the opera's impact, while considerable, remained more visual than musical. The production featured not only mechanical gimmicks, acrobats on wires, and lavish costumes, but a well-disciplined ballet company led by Niels Kehlett (of the Royal Danish Ballet) whose executions reflected both great strength and refinement...
Miss Wood has indicated she wants the same lavish treatment from the Lampoon editors that Ethel Merman received from the Hasty Pudding when she picked up the 1966 Woman of the Year Award. Her press agent has already called the Lampoon three times to make sure the festivities get planned
...chief weakness lies in the nationalized 53% of Austrian industry: steel, aluminum, oil, chemicals, leather, paper and lumber, plus the deficit-burdened state railway. Hobbled by price control, high taxes to finance lavish welfare programs and a chronic lack of capital, both nationalized and private industry have been loath to expand into new product lines or even to modernize plants rebuilt after World War II with $1 billion of Marshall Plan aid. On top of that, much of private industry is fragmented into pint-sized firms-25% employ no more than 20 persons. Predictably, they turn out goods in small...