Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week some two to three thousand U.S. Marines, most of them now dead or wounded, gave the nation a name to stand beside those of Concord Bridge, the Bonhomme Richard, the Alamo, Little Big Horn and Belleau Wood. The name was Tarawa...
From the mid-Pacific battleground, Sherrod cabled: "A small rock memorial near the Betio Club, blockhouses, big guns-everything but a few shot-up am-tracks visible at low tide belongs to the Japanese. It seems fitting to affix a bronze plaque at the base of a white pylon in memory of the United States Marines who won a unique battle there. They provided the lessons for the rest of the journey...
...only does the current international monetary crisis reinforce cliches about national character; it also reveals that Germany is even stronger and France is weaker than many observers had previously believed. The French government is paying the price for giving in last spring to striking workers' demands for big wage increases. Those demands had been caused largely by the De Gaulle government's past policies of creating prosperity by holding down wages and skimping on social needs. In addition, France has long suffered from the tendency of many of its people to distrust their own currency, to put profit...
...Christian Democrats, meanwhile, installed a minority government, temporizing until the Socialists could return to the fold. The Socialist pezzi grossi (big shots) expected to get support for the return at last month's party congress in Rome. "Here we are, five months after the election and in a worse position," declared Pietro Nenni, at 77 the party patriarch. But so badly divided was the party that in five days and nights, the only resolution it passed was for the removal of the word united from the party title, The United Socialist Party of Italy. Angered that the leadership...
Into the Vacuum. Before he returned home last week, the Shah, in his ambitious new role as benevolent big brother to Saudi Arabia and the diverse sheikdoms along the Gulf, promised Saudi Arabia a new medical school, complete with professors. He brought along a trade pact that will supply arid Arabia with fresh meat, vegetables and eggs. And he offered the Saudi airline a share of the lucrative annual hadj flights, the trips to Mecca by devout pilgrims from Iran...