Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Year after year the delegations of high officials, Congressmen and their dignitaries would arrive in Salgon and, still dizzy from the trip, would receive massive, two or three-hour briefings from colonels with seven overlay charts, then dine with the ambassador or the commanding general, those tall noble Anglo-Saxons who emanated all the confidence of surgeons to their patients. The next day they would be issued green fatigues and flown around by daredevil helicopter pilots to spend (but for the air trip) an unalterably boring day visiting hamlets with pig farms, maternity clinics, 'miracle rice' plots, and children washed...
...Boeing order was China's third aircraft purchase of the summer. The others were for six British-built Tridents and for three Anglo-French Concordes, the supersonics scheduled to go into service in the West in 1974. Why does China need so many new planes? "The Chinese do not have a very wide network of roads or a vast railway system," says Boeing Vice President Byron Miller, leader of the company's China delegation. "The cheapest way for them to obtain transportation to many places is the airplane, and I see a great potential in China for aircraft...
...Kidd, a leisurely Eastwood western in which the star is presumably recuperating from the rigors of his recent Dirty Harry and Play Misty for Me. In the title role, Eastwood is the leading maverick of Sinola, N. Mex., a town in the grip of a land war between the Anglo settlers and disgruntled Mexicans, led by a firebrand named Luis Chama (John Saxon...
...Lazing in a field are clusters of young longhairs, some of them students, some wanderers from other nations. They all speak the same language: guitar and hash. Elector Karl Theodor designed this park in 1789. It was not Karl Theodor who inscribed the familiar four-letter Anglo-Saxon words on the sober columns of the Greek temple in the garden...
Cash-rich oil companies like Jersey Standard and Royal Dutch/Shell keep hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of different currencies and move in and out of them on a day-to-day basis. So does the Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever. When a currency seems weak, Unilever's finance managers may send orders to many banks telling them to get rid of it and buy a strong currency. Ernest Woodroofe, Unilever's chairman, concluded recently that the company occasionally "accelerates" international monetary crises by shifting its weight around...