Word: bearers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goods and services) rose $30 billion, to over $600 billion; per capita personal income reached $2,500, up $300 in three years; U.S. corporate profits totaled more than $50 billion ($25 billion after taxes), and civilian employment went above 70 million for the first time. Heller also was the bearer of not-so-glad tidings: unemployment last year remained in excess of 4,000,000 persons-a persistent 5% to 6% of the labor force. This, Heller told the President, was his Administration's "principal challenge...
...most outlandish colonial costumes: solar topees and fly veils, pith helmets and mosquito boots. One girl came wrapped in a Union Jack. The idea was to spoof East Africa's rapidly fading tradition of Blimpism, and the guests had all been asked to "R.S.V.P. by native bearer in cleft stick or by tom-tom." Promptly at midnight the laughter stopped, and with mock solemnity everyone sang God Save the Queen, for at that very moment the British flag was fluttering down for the last time in neighboring Kenya...
Born. To Thomas Edmund Dewey Jr., 31, Manhattan investment banker, son of the Republican standard-bearer in 1944 and 1948, and Ann Lawler Dewey, 26, Columbia University doctoral candidate in classics: their first child, a son, first grandchild for Dewey Sr.; in Manhattan. Name: Thomas Edmund Lawler Dewey...
...episodes and historic tableaux. Act I is devoted more to atmosphere scenting than soul shaking. However, Albert Finney achieves one powerful revelatory moment. He breaks from the company of his chanting fellow monks with his body arched in contortion, his mouth twisted and strangulated with epileptic sounds, the seeming bearer of some supernatural vision or message that he cannot articulate. After that, it is difficult to think of Luther except as possessed, obsessed, and intoxicated...
...gold sovereigns saved from the looters by an aged Kaffir retainer. And so it goes in plummy neo-Hemingway prose, with three dozen major characters, 189 speaking parts, thousands of extras, and big-name guest stars playing themselves-War Correspondent Winston Churchill, Army Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle, Stretcher-Bearer Mohandas Gandhi...