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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have their roots in his childhood. Shortly before he died, Redon visited the town where he grew up, and reported, "I have completely understood the origins of the sad art I have created. It is a site for a monastery, an enclosure in which one feels oneself alone-what abandon! It was necessary there to fill one's imagination with the unlikely, for into this exile one had to put something. After all, it may well be that in places most completely deprived of features pleasant to the eye, the spirit and the imagination must take their revenge...
...catch was that Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp, Inc. was always barely one gasp ahead of its creditors: by last year the company was staggering under some $100 million in short-term debt, found itself so short of ready cash that Zeckendorf was obliged to swallow his pride and abandon cherished plans to build a $60 million Manhattan luxury hotel named after himself (TIME, Aug. 1, 1960). Last week, after swallowing a bit more of his pride and accepting a much be-stringed bundle of cash from Britain, Zeckendorf seemingly had Webb & Knapp back on the road to financial stability...
...marines off the Dominican coast-became heroes for a day by blocking a comeback coup by two Trujillo brothers. But their authoritarian rule still did not meet the nation's hankering for freedom. The opposition National Civic Union, a moderate group, demanded that Balaguer and Rodriguez Echavarria themselves abandon power. At first the two Trujillo holdovers refused. It remained for two unlikely go-betweens to bring about a settlement-Luis Amiama Tió and Antonio Imbert Barreras. sole survivors of the Trujillo assassination plot. Invoking their present popularity as tyrannicides, Amiama Tió and Imbert quietly sold Rodriguez Echavarria...
...Three. A sort of Mack Sennett investigation of the situation in Berlin, conducted with a wham-bam abandon by Director Billy Wilder...
...Three. A sort of Mack Sennett investigation of the situation in Berlin, conducted with a wham-bam abandon by Director Billy Wilder...