Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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During a strenuous, eight-month campaign tour that covered 35,000 miles and took him to 900 towns, Echeverria, 48, got an eyeful of the hardscrabble conditions under which so many of his countrymen live. So did scores of government officials and businessmen who accompanied him for three-week periods...
Into the Desert. The father of eight, Echeverria is a strong disciplinarian with a puritanical streak. He made it clear last week that he would not tolerate a repetition of the Mexico City student uprisings that preceded the 1968 Olympic Games. Echeverria was Minister of the Interior under outgoing President...
Even so, he seems determined not to be deflected from his top priority. On the first full day of his presidency, Echeverria ordered plans to be drawn up for the incorporation of Mexico's farmers into the social security system. At week's end he headed off to...
Was renaming Paris' Place d'Etoile after Charles de Gaulle really enough of a tribute? Why not go all out and make the late general a saint? The idea was suggested by a German journalist and backed up by no less a dignitary than the Vatican's...
The English are old hands at draft evasion, what with the dearth of central heating. But it's harder with your clothes off. The London cast of Kenneth Tynan's Oh! Calcutta! got so cold standing, sitting and walking around onstage in the nude or near-nude that...