Word: brightened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mountain flowers are purple underfoot. Yellow lichens and red moss brighten in the morning sun, and the heavy granite block retaining wall of the caravan road to Natu Pass curves in gentle arcs up to the ridge line that forms a natural border between Sikkim and Tibet. Just over the top of this ridge wait some 3,000 Red Chinese troops, part of the 17,000-man Chinese 2nd Division headquartered at Yatung. Other Chinese battalions guard Jelep Pass and the smaller passes into Sikkim. The tough Chinese troops at Natu, whom we had come up to see, have...
...BALLOU. Two no-good gunfighters (both played to perfection by Lee Marvin) brighten a way-out western about a schoolmarm (Jane Fonda) who trades readin' and writin' for a catch-up course in train robbery...
...BALLOU. Two no-good gunfighters (both played to perfection by Lee Marvin) brighten a way-out western about a schoolmarm (Jane Fonda) who trades readin' and writin' for a catch-up course in train robbery...
Stable Prices. These troubles have won Alcoa a reputation on Wall Street as a weak performer, but Harper insists that the company's fortunes should continue to brighten. Reason: aluminum demand is catching up with supply, and ingot prices have finally stabilized (at 24½? a lb.), even though the industry has two more producers and 35% more capacity than when its price troubles began. Aluminum is already a big item in everything from saucepans to Saturn rocket skins, but to advance Alcoa's recovery further Harper is pushing hard to get more aluminum into mass products-tops...
...MURDER YOUR WIFE. Jack Lemmon, Terry-Thomas and Italy's Virna Lisi brighten some nonsense about a bachelor who wakes up married and rues...