Word: annuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everyone knows, is the time when Brazil plunges into the world's biggest binge, a wild four-day pageant driven by the intoxicating beat of the samba. There are no politics to carnaval, and no Brazilian government-however tough-minded-would dare deny its people their great annual excursion into tun and fantasy (see box following page). Yet there is a slightly unreal air to Brazil this week, as carnaval dances toward its pre-Lent climax. Since the military crackdown last December, Brazilians have had to put up with a tough, moralistic, even prudish regime. While revelers are putting...
...temperature in Quebec City was 10° F., and Princess Grace of Monaco, in town for the annual Winter Carnival and a visit to an old friend, Mrs. Gilles Lamontagne, wife of the mayor, was appropriately cool and collected when newsmen collared her for some comments. On the problem of raising bilingual children (French and English): "I'm still waiting for someone to write a handbook on it." On the trials of being an exactress: she finds it "flattering" to receive film offers but politely declines them. As for films in general: "I'm awfully tired of seeing...
...strike. Struggling American Motors earned $11.8 million during the fiscal year ending last September, its first full-year profit since 1965. The performance was helped by tax credits and the sale of the unprofitable Kelvinator Division. Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr. announced last week that A.M.C. will aim for annual auto sales of 500,000 by the early 1970s, nearly double the present level...
...median annual income of the students' fathers is $20,970 while the national median...
After barely surviving the first day of competition, Harvard's ski team jumped into fourth place during the final day of the 59th annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival...