Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Britain's mouth water. Ade nauer seemed willing to slow down the pace of the Common Market tariff changes, even ready to discuss the knotty "special problems" such as preferential Commonwealth tariffs, which the British claim make it impossible for them to join the Common Market in its present form. Nothing was settled, but technicians on both sides set to work seeking areas of compromise. "They've put a good deal of water in the Common Market wine," exulted one high British diplomat...
Last week more than 2,000 Britons descended on Sheffield Park Station, many of the men in batwing collars and the women in high-button shoes and Victorian bonnets. To the strains of When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam', the Bluebell-consisting for the present of two freshly painted wooden coaches between a brace of antique steam engines -chuffed down the track at a sedate 25 m.p.h. Minutes later, reaching the end of the line, the volunteer engineer and fireman hopped out, hurried around to the rear engine, fired it up and brought the train, all whistles...
...Panama to produce a treaty dealing with common defense, peaceful settlement of disputes and abolition of slave trading. There the idea rested until 1889, when U.S. Secretary of State James G. Elaine organized a trade-promoting "International Union of American Republics." In 1910 the organization got its present Spanish-colonial-style headquarters in Washington and a permanent secretariat, the Pan American Union. It then began a three-decade period of drowsy eclipse. For 26 years it was run as an international banqueting society by Director General Leo S. Rowe, a penny-pinching lowan who invariably served lamb stew to hold...
...Swiss-exiled Comedian Charlie Chaplin, is, oddly, not in anything written but in the conspicuous omission of Charlie's name from a stretch of pavement that will be known as the Hollywood "Walk of Fame," bearing the inscribed names of some 1,500 Hollywood stars, past and present. Chaplin Jr. sees his father's failure to get star billing in cement as tantamount to public disgrace. At the very least, it is ingratitude...
...science's swift-moving state, the present achievements of the Xis are but a prelude to what is expected of it when it is outfitted with new high-powered rocket engines this fall. Says Test Pilot White exultantly: "I would have no qualms about going higher...