Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unquestionably in for a bad time under the summer sun of July or August. The clairvoyant offered the news that the Auchincloss car will soon be damaged in a minor accident. No matter that TIME'S cover writer braves Manhattan traffic on a bicycle when he comes to work. He does own a cherished antique car, and now he is leary about taking it out of the garage...
...wingspread) gilded eagle that bestrides the U.S. embassy in Grosvenor Square an insult to the British,-Annenberg said that he would find a new roost for the bird. That may not be so easy. The eagle's creator, Sculptor Theodore Roszak, has threatened legal action if his work is removed. "The eagle," said Roszak, "is an integral part of the embassy." Besides, he added, the cost of tearing him loose from the building's steel beams would be enormous. Meanwhile, a well-turned verse of protest was making the rounds of American drawingrooms in London...
Encouraged by the huge profits to be made, 200 full-time and 3,500 part-time poachers kill an estimated 40,000 alligators every year. They work in relative safety, able to lose themselves quickly in the labyrinthine waterways when park rangers come along...
...home of the Chinese nuclear tests. Beginning about 1960, the Peking government set out to transform the desert into a fertile area. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, party cadres, middle-school graduates and intellectuals thought to be in need of "reeducation" have been sent to Sinkiang to work for the cause, and their efforts have had some results. But for the most part, Sinkiang remains a wasteland, even less developed than the Soviet lands to the north...
...families," and warned that he might be permanently expelled from the country. They asked Connock to help identify British agents in Poland; he signed a statement of cooperation, then reported the whole affair to the British government, his wife, and his editor. Instead of being shifted to other work on the paper as he had expected, he was fired, and last week was still looking...