Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Follies, a mediocre musical, tried and tested by formula and dipped in commercialized nostalgia, appears on Broadway, and you hail it as a breakthrough composition [May 3]. I am intellectually affronted by this kind of premature journalism, which offers categorical answers to questions not even raised...
...gray dawn broke over Brussels, the newsmen were invited to go upstairs. "A major breakthrough?" inquired one reporter. "D'accord" replied Rippon, speaking fittingly in French. "The dialogue of the deaf is over." French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann also seemed pleased. "The results," he said, "need no commentary." Schumann added that the entire negotiations could be completed by the end of June. Since Ireland, Denmark and Norway seek to join at the same time as Britain, the Six could become the Ten by 1973-with a larger population than either Russia or the U.S. and a gross national product...
Measurably Mellowed. The sudden surprising burst of progress established a favorable climate for the summit meeting in Paris this week between France's President Georges Pompidou and Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath. The breakthrough came on the second evening of the two-day bargaining session in Brussels. The first day had ended poorly. Rippon was adamant in his demands for assurances that Commonwealth sugar-producing countries, such as Jamaica, Mauritius and Fiji, be granted special preferences to sell their commodity to the Common Market. The Six refused. "They tried to hustle us as if we were...
...credits them with inviting Hitler's invasion of Scandinavia with loudly proclaimed plans to mine Norwegian ports and cut off the flow of iron ore from Sweden. Sir Basil thinks somewhat more highly of the German generals. But even they, he admits, succeeded in their dramatic 1940 breakthrough on the Western front partly by accident. Their initial plan for the invasion of France was a right-flank wheel through Belgium along the lines of the 1914 Schlieffen plan, which might easily have been met and thwarted. The strategy was dropped, however, when a German major, flying in a snowstorm...
...Common Market, of course, thrives on crises. Almost every breakthrough has been preceded by dire warnings of the EEC's impending doom and all-night bargaining sessions that finally produced the necessary compromise. Even now, cautious optimism is detectable on both sides. French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann said casually: "There are really no serious problems with Britain's joining. We want Britain, and all we ask is that . . . she become a club member within the rules." Geoffrey Rippon, Britain's chief negotiator, struck a still cozier metaphor. "Reasonable men, given enough coffee and cognac," he observed...