Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Canada's Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, who announced his retirement last month, will be remembered as a great diplomat who shouldn't have gone into politics. And yet to Canadians, Pearson's brief and peculiarily muddled political career is of great interest, for it establishes the man as one of their own. In both successes of his four-and-a-half year administration, and in its drab confusion and its quiet disasters, he had faithfully mirrored the problems and the character of his country...
...fanned out across the city, soon spotted the green murder car and, after a fierce gun battle, killed Communist Terrorist Leonard Castillo John son, 22, a member of the Castroite Rebel Armed Forces (FAR)-and the boyfriend of the murdered beauty queen. The next morning, the FAR issued a brief bulletin, claiming credit for the murders of Webber and Munro, and posthumously congratulating Castillo as the triggerman who had "brought to justice the Yanqui officers who were teaching tactics to the Guatemalan army for its war against the people...
Claustrophobia. Even behind bars, Aunay managed to put his talents to profitable use. Put away in 1962 for a brief term in Paris' Fresnes Prison, he wangled a job in the prison purchasing office, and whiled away his sentence forging $120,000 worth of payment orders for goods the prison never received. During a three-year term for armed robbery in Nice, he suffered a convenient heart attack and wound up living it up in the prison ward of a local hospital. He passed out caviar to his nurses, champagne to his guards, and threw an elaborately catered foie...
Pithoprakta (meaning actions by probabilities) has twelve dancers skittering, scuttering, rolling across the stage like nodes and waves of electrical energy. A lithe, half-naked Negro in black (Arthur Mitchell) and a tall girl in white (Suzanne Farrell) do a fluid, sex-charged pas de deux that builds to brief contact, then breaks to a tense conclusion, with the girl's body straining alone as the curtain falls...
...away hunting, and that the male would remain with the female to help in the extended rearing of the more slowly developing offspring, the "pair-bond," or love, came to Homo sapiens. At the same time, sexual relations became more rewarding to both male and female; the once brief mating season turned into a year-round affair...