Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could be eased at private diplomatic meetings in the town houses and apartments of New York. At one such meeting, held in U.N. Secretary-General U Thant's 38th-floor office suite at week's end, representatives of the U.S., Russia, Britain and France agreed to resume Big Four talks on the Mideast after a ten-week hiatus...
...continent's oldest republic -founded in 1847 by black freedmen from the U.S. She also claims descent from a back-country tribe rather than from one of Liberia's elite founding "honorables," and so knows something about the tribal loyalties and rivalries that play so big a role in Africa...
...cycle began with the increase in leisure time. Many of the vacationers, hunters and skiers who motored up new highways to Windham County decided to buy second homes. They, in turn, attracted developers, who quickly snapped up big parcels of land. So far, subdividers have built 4,216 vacation houses; by 1974 they plan to construct another 5,000. Naturally, land prices and property taxes have soared. In 1967, the owner of a 55-acre wood lot in Guilford paid $24 in annual taxes; today he pays $585. As a result, some residents can no longer afford to live...
Four-channel stereo at first suggests mainly gimmicky possibilities-tap dancers banging their way across the living room and out into the kitchen; Valkyries swooping about the house like big-bosomed mosquitoes. Yet it has serious potential in recording. Certain kinds of music can be adequately heard no other way: the Berlioz Requiem, for instance, with its four brass bands in opposite corners, or the antiphonal music of Gabrieli...
...mind, but I was still scared. Then when it started to come on, I thought, "How could such beautiful stuff hurt me?" I really dig acid raps. That's when you talk to the cat you took acid with about anything that comes into your mind. Once a big Day-Glo ribbon materialized and hovered three or four inches above the ground. It was about 7 ft. long and 2 ft. thick. Everything that I was going to say was written on that ribbon in pink letters before I was going to say it, so I just read...