Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officials had acted on his request too hastily. He recalled his ambassador to Washington, renewed old charges that the CIA was behind a clandestine radio operated by his domestic opposition. He was also still convinced that when he received a "present" from an unknown donor in 1959 and the box turned out to contain a bomb, the CIA was to blame...
...COLOMBIA: In elections to fill half of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies, an old, deposed dictator pulled off a disturbing ballot-box coup. Ex-General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 64, tough right-wing dictator from 1953 until he was overthrown in 1957, is barred by law from politics, lives in semi-exile in his backlands home. Under no such restraint, his resurgent party lambasted President Guillermo León Valencia's bipartisan government for higher income taxes, deficit spending and spiraling living costs. Rojas-backed candidates piled up 21% of the vote, to win 27 seats...
...important indicators are rising (see box), yet none so fast that they cause concern. Last week, as reports came out heralding important gains in industrial production, personal income, auto sales and housing, many businessmen and economists were no longer taking seriously the old textbook notion that a modern economy can scarcely expect three consecutive years of record auto production, or four straight years of plump times. Said Chief Presidential Economist Walter Heller: "The expansion should continue well into...
...that she can compress an entire process of, say, four hours, into 30 minutes. By the end of a show about the preparation of one duck, for example, there will be a duck in the oven, another freshly stuffed on the counter, a stand-by duck in the ice box, and perhaps a misfired duck on the floor...
...Rochas looks and lives as a perfume queen should. Now 43, she has wide cornflower-blue eyes, an engaging smile, a mannequin's figure, a fragile air -and the business reputation of a panther. Her Paris apartment glitters like an open jewel box. Eggs made of jade and amethyst nest on a coffee table, and an 18th century chandelier supports candles set in gold. One night, Premier Georges Pompidou and Franchise Sagan may come to dinner, the next Marlene Dietrich and Gian Carlo Menotti...