Word: brandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prices go? Some Brazilian coffee experts say that over the next 18 months or so the price of raw coffee could gradually decline to about $1 per Ib. on the New York market, which would translate into a retail price somewhere in the $2 range, depending upon quality and brand. That is just above what coffee cost before it zoomed off on its great roller-coaster ride...
Down Under, on a sprawling 16,000-acre ranch, Michael Kennedy, 19, gamely tried to brand cattle, herd sheep and, noted an observer, "had a go at everything." But what the third son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy really wants to have a go at is salvaging Uncle John's World War II patrol boat, PT109. The boat is thought to lie in 1,400 ft. of water off the Solomon Islands, where it was sunk by a Japanese destroyer in 1943. J.F.K.'s heroic part in the survival of his crew became a legend that...
...fast. Hotels/Motels: sparse. Sofitel-Jacques Borel within airport boasts the best view for the Concorde takeoff, another hotel 1 ¼ miles away. Amenities: superb. Le Bistrot sidewalk cafe; five restaurants. Best: Maxim's. Four bars, open 24 hr. Arcade of tax-free boutiques on transit floor offers every brand of French perfume (20% off), watches, scarves, jewelry, liquor, luggage, pâté, etc. Barbershop and beauty salon. First-aid station. Overall: functional but sans joie de vivre...
There was no question that Washington was impressed by Pérez. Said a White House official after he departed: "His country is one of the few surviving democracies of Latin America, a $3 billion-a-year market for U.S. goods, and is interacting with the U.S. in a brand-new way. Thank God, he's a guy with whom we can still hold a dialogue...
Sara (Author Davidson has made herself one of the central characters in her book) was a second-generation Californian, a freelance journalist who "wanted to be the Girl of the Sixties brand-new, streamlined, groovy daring upfront, telling it like it is. I also wanted to stop wearing a bra, but Jane and I worried that it would cause our breasts to droop...