Word: ar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today entitled The New French Revolution, British Journalist John Ardagh points out that "Paris over the centuries has sucked the blood out of her provinces." Things were set up that way back in the early days of the French Revolution, when the nation was chopped into nearly 100 illogically ar ranged departments with the firm intention of making every local decision dependent upon Parisian whims. That situation still exists today: "Not a statue can be erected, not a centime spent, without Paris becoming involved," moans a Breton official...
...printed a continuing debate be tween Authors Isaac Asimov and Ar thur C. Clarke over the existence of a particle that travels faster than light...
Swinging with the Smart. The technicians practice Wall Street's most ar cane - some are unkind enough to say inane - art. In deciding whether to buy or sell a stock, the purists among them profess to care less about such fundamentals as a company's assets, its earnings, its management or even what it does. Instead, the chartists divine the fu ture of a stock by poring over a dis play of its past performance. The zigs and zags may ignore the fundamental "facts," but more important, technicians argue, the charts reflect what the mar ket knows...
...world beyond Wall Street, most financial trade publications seem as dull and dreary as a stock prospectus. A new publication in this ar cane area of journalism, however, is fast proving that writing about high finance can be both exciting and amusing. Its editor is 'Adam Smith,' the author of the irreverent and humorous bestseller, The Money Game. As Wall Street and publishing circles know by now, Smith is really George J.W. Good man, 38, a former Rhodes scholar, journalist (TIME, FORTUNE), novelist and screenwriter (The Wheeler Dealers). Considerably less well known is Good man's latest...
...home and financed their movement with the proceeds of five bank robberies. Then in early August, a bearded gunman staked out the home of Meliton Manzanas Gonzales, 58, the tough police chief of Spain's Basque region and an unpopular representative of General Francisco Franco. When Manzanas ar rived home from work, the assailant gunned him down from ambush with a volley of pistol shots and escaped across the nearby border to France...