Word: 4o
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harold Macmillan, there could be no question of switching off the hearing aid. The Commonwealth's sustained offensive significantly swelled anti-Europe sentiment in Britain at a time when Macmillan's government is already dangerously weak. The raucous debate strengthened the hand of the 4O-odd right-wing Tory rebels who would like nothing better than to retreat from Europe. And, after a year of cagey fence straddling, Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell vaulted into the debate to decry the Common Market's terms of admission as "too damaging to be acceptable." The Labor Party, he hinted...
...title ever since. Repeated winners of France's cherished Grand Prix du Disque, I Musici has made 34 records, sold a phenomenal 300,000 copies. Its best seller: Vivaldi's Four Seasons. In its pursuit of perfection, the group takes four full days to record a 4O-min. LP. The result is a luxurious, butter-smooth string tone, an artful blending of the orchestra's twelve instruments (six violins, two cellos, two violas, harpsichord, bass), a dynamic control that is the envy of other instrumentalists. Also to be envied: the fact that I Musici gets along harmoniously...
...began producing heavy machinery and giant electric steelmaking furnaces. Recently, to keep up with the middle-class Italian's desire to graduate from two-wheeled transportation to four. Ferdinando, with his son, Luigi, took Innocenti Co. into assembling British Motor Corporation's Italian-styled Austin A-4O...
...sending it far ahead of Britain's other big quality Sunday paper, the Observer (727,964). Eventually, Thomson intends to convert the Sunday Time?, into something resembling the hefty Sunday papers that hit U.S. front porches. Early next year, for example, the paper will add a 4O-page, four-color illustrated magazine...
Burens. a 4O-year veteran at G.E., also implicated former President Robert Paxton in the conspiracy. Burens testified that in 1954 Paxton suggested to him that he should meet with an official from Milwaukee's Cutler-Hammer to discuss prices...