Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brothers Cohn-Bendit see it, the explosion of 1968-with its barricades, its bloody street battles, its crippling general strike-came within a hairbreadth of toppling Charles de Gaulle. "From the 27th to the 30th of May," they insist, "nobody had any power in France. The government was breaking up, De Gaulle and Pompidou were isolated. The police, intimidated by the size of the strike and exhausted by two weeks of fighting in the streets, were incapable of maintaining public order. The army was out of sight; conscripts could not have been used for a cause in which...
Italy found itself with a new government last week, its 27th since 1945 and quite possibly its most unwieldy. Incoming Premier Mariano Rumor named 27 Cabinet members, a postwar record. They will be supported by perhaps as many as 57 under secretaries (up from 40), vying for cars, chauffeurs, parking spaces and all the other perquisites of office. There were reasons for the glut. Rumor was intent on maintaining as broad a base of political support as possible, and his crowded Cabinet represented nearly every faction in his lumpy Center-Left government. Despite the skepticism that greeted the crazy-quilt...
Sweet Eros and Witness--Two one-acters by Terrence McNally, notable for their spasmodic blasts of humor and the most extended nude sequence to date to appear on a New York stage. At the GRAMERCY ARTS, 138 E. 27th...
...million in RCA stock, was negotiated by Bob Sarnoff and St. Regis' longtime chairman, Roy K. Ferguson, 74, but still must be approved by directors and shareholders of both companies. If it goes through, the acquisition of the $721.7 million-a-year paper company would put RCA, the 27th largest U.S. firm, as recently as four years ago, within striking distance...
Thirty-three bicyclists pumped and wheezed 12.8 miles to a nearby women's college yesterday in the 27th annual Harvard-Wellesley bike race. Seven faint hearts dropped...