Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAST CHAPTER. The long bitter history of Jewish life in Poland is ruefully recounted in rare stills and film clips, with a moving narration by Theodore Bikel...
...story is a distillation of Texan political mores, which permit the closest of friends to castigate one another on the hustings and get drunk together when the votes are in. Though Governor John Bowden Connally Jr. considers Lyndon Baines Johnson his finest friend, he has leveled bitter criticism at the Johnson Administration of late. Connally's blasts began last month when the Justice Department ordered FBI agents to monitor a special 15-day voter registration period that followed the abolition of Texas' poll tax. Last week the state won a court fight against a U.S. attempt to extend...
...molested by a monk? A lesbian mother superior? A suicidal sister? Shocking material indeed, even if it is only on film. The movie is a new French production called Suzanne Simonin, la Religieuse de Diderot, and last week it was the center of a bitter controversy that has once more put the government of Charles de Gaulle under a withering verbal cannonade. Reason: it is the first film in French history whose showing has been banned by the government both in France and abroad...
More than anything else, this first breakthrough in the bitter fight between growers and workers, who have been on strike for recognition since last September, had been achieved by the massive support given to the strikers by California's churches. "It is the single most important thing that has helped us," says Cesar Chávez, organizer of the union...
...record, flew round-the-world in 91 hours in 1938, conceived the Constellation airliner, was badly hurt in two crashes. He bought control of TWA from Lehman Bros, in 1939, becoming the only operating chief of a major U.S. airline who also owned it. After a long series of bitter battles with bankers and managers, he found his airline bogged in debt and was forced in 1960 to turn over the management to hostile trustees. Last week Hughes surprised everybody by making a logical decision: sell every last share...