Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Douglas Dillon met in Paris with diplomats from 19 other nations to sign the charter of a new international outfit called the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The aims of the charter very much reflect Dillon's own long-range attitudes. The idea is to build a sound international economic structure, with emphasis on free trade and joint Western development of the fledgling nations. In his new Treasury job, Dillon will be looking through the other end of the telescope. He will be charged with building a sound U.S. economy to assure the basis of free world strength...
...Spanish beauty of Beatriz María Julia, Patiño capped a long campaign to be legally free by obtaining a Mexican divorce. At that, Princess Maria Cristina decided no settlement, no divorce, and sued for a sizable chunk of the Patiño fortune on the reasonably sound ground that, as a Bolivian, Patiño is subject to the Bolivian law that foreign divorces are legal only when the nation in which the marriage was performed (in this case, divorceless Spain) permits divorce...
Once he gets his Yankee rebels used to the sensation of being south of the Battery, McGuire teaches them a brand of sound, aggressive basketball that he himself learned back home in New York. With Brother Dick* (now coach of the N.B.A.'s Detroit Pistons), McGuire starred for St. John's and the professional Knicks, where his slashing style earned him the nickname "Tiger...
...Smithfield Show, Britain's largest agricultural exhibition, is normally a roistering barnyard symphony of bleats, moos and grunts. But this year virtually the only sound to be heard in the show grounds at London's cavernous Earl's Court was the occasional roar of a tractor. For the first time in memory not a single animal was competing for the Smithfield's blue ribbons. The reason: one of the most virulent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in modern British history...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The sound of Christmas, with Risë Stevens, John Raitt and the Columbus Boychoir. Color...