Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...price of a few extra hours, follow California Route 1 along the coast from San Luis Obispo to Monterey. Most spectacular is the 102-mile stretch from William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon estate through the Big Sur country to Carmel: with bare, steep cliffs on one side and a dizzying drop to the sea on the other, the narrow ribbon loops and spirals like a drunk. Subject to landslides and often shrouded in fog, it is closed at the first hint of rain, infrequently traveled, perilous and lonely, yet exhilarating as a first trip to Chartres...
...acres in the highlands. If the program is carried out successfully, the change will be dramatic. Most of the country's arable land has been concentrated in the hands of a few wealthy hacienda owners ever since colonial days; the peasants either worked as sharecroppers or scratched a bare living out of their own tiny plots, often no larger than a single furrow. Today a peasant's life expectancy is only 32 years, and his income is about $110 annually. To get maximum effect from the new law, which goes into effect next month, the government...
...Madeleine: "I love stone too much not to wish to see it." Malraux says that art is "the presence in our lives of what should belong to death," and holds that classic buildings cloaked in mantles of soot are deadened, if not dead. To look on beauty bare, as it is emerging in Paris, is to see what is agelessly and vibrantly alive, what T. S. Eliot called "the present moment of the past...
...police pound, the owner paid maybe a $4 fine; if it wasn't -shrug. One army captain wailed that it took him three days of searching to find his Volkswagen; other owners found that vandals had followed the tow trucks, stripped their cars bare...
...sealed up immediately," said the store's president, Melvin Dawley, "and shipped to the poor." More sophisticated Western ladies snapped up models available in San Francisco stores and over the warnings of local clergymen that "nakedness and paganism go hand in hand," the first few tentative attempts at bare-breasted exposure took place. One deterrent: very few girls have either the courage to strip or the bosom to make it worthwhile...