Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swede, who appeared in 16 features, and Sidney Toler, a Missourian, who lumbered woodenly through 22 pictures portraying Charlie as the still life of the party. Made on B-picture budgets, the Chan films show their age with simple-minded mysteries solvable in the second reel by any post-Bond youngster of eight. They also rely heavily on antique comic relief as subtle as a pig bladder. Charlie's No. 1 and No. 2 sons incessantly glue up the clues, and a procession of Negro buffoons (Mantan Moreland, Stepin Fetchit, Willie Best) pop their eyes at every corpse...
...Penkovsky Papers, published in 1965. Contact on Gorky Street is the autobiographical account of the British businessman, recruited by British intelligence, who befriended Penkovsky in Moscow and became his conduit to the West. The book is far more chilling than any of the fictional adventures of James Bond or Harry Palmer...
...this year, U.S. corporations have floated or announced $443 million of bond issues abroad, all denominated in dollars-which meant that they could be bought only with Eurodollars. The total approaches the $497 million worth of bonds that U.S. firms sold in Europe during all of 1966; it is only a fifth less than the $527 million they sold all last year. The surge of American offerings has impelled several European borrowers to postpone their own Eurobond issues...
...town displaying photographic blowups of the stinking, 19th century toilets-open sewage troughs with a waste receptacle at one end-still used by 15,000 students. By 1966, Briggs's efforts had paid off in the form of a 20% increase in school taxes and a $66 million bond issue...
Meanwhile, a half dozen more disconsolate Avatar staffers waited in the lobby of the police station for bond to be set and for the prisoners to decide whether they wanted to come...