Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holdings in Venezuela's largest corporation, Creole Petroleum), urges the U.S. to take "steps to bring about the ultimate goal of Western Hemisphere economic union" to create "the greatest free-trading area in the world." Tariffs and quotas hamper trade throughout the Americas; eliminating or reducing them could touch off a burst of healthful commerce...
While Love gives wide local powers to his executives, he so dominates the whole works that when he takes a deep breath underlings exhale. He dislikes conferences, keeps in touch by firing off a hundred crisp yet polite memos a day. He knuckles down hard on men who do not produce. A few years ago, so many top executives were leaving Burlington that someone suggested that Old Soldier Love establish a separation center. But for all his toughness, even his fiercest competitors call Love "the leader of the industry." They do not always follow his lead. Unlike many anti-import...
...Even if there are no large, conspicuous plants or animals to see from a distance, the soil may swarm with microscopic creatures, as does the earth's. Lederberg suggests equipping an interplanetary probe with a sort of artificial anteater that will stick out a tongue of transparent tape, touch it to the planet's soil, and draw it back again for study by a built-in microscope. The enlarged pictures of dust particles could be transmitted to the earth by radio, should tell whether the soil has exo-organisms...
...Squalls Ahead. Luxury boats among the more than 75 cabin cruisers on display included Richardson's 46-ft., $51,000 motor yacht sleeping ten people. Rivaling it in the lavish touch was Bayhead Skiffs' 30-ft. Caribbean sports express. It has a hot-water shower, two electric refrigerators, a built-in rotisserie in its all-electric kitchen. Price: $28,000. But the biggest attention grabbers at the show were the new jet motorboats. Buehler Turbocraft exhibited a 16-ft. inboard (price: $3,450), powered by a jet engine. It draws in water through intakes amidships, forces...
...purpose to implement that decision with no effort to sidestep, no effort by subterfuge or sharp practices to defeat the purpose of the court," launched a campaign with such tact and perseverance that Louisville schools, from kindergarten through high school, were completely integrated in 1956 without a touch of violence; of a heart attack; in Louisville...