Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thailand's royal couple. Bhumibol broke tradition by delivering a long political toast to the President, warning against any compromise in Viet Nam that might compromise his kingdom's independence and security. "To us, peace can have only one meaning," he said. "It must be peace with honor and freedom." Replied Johnson: "America keeps its commitments." Sirikit, seated next to Bhumibol in front of a motherof-pearl throne with a nine-tiered canopy (symbolizing her husband's place as the ninth King in the Chakri line), glowed in a champagne-colored gown, despite a lingering cold...
...mother, Mrs. Anne Hamilton Spalding, who, after four divorces, lives in her son's $200,000 Beverly Hills house. The board has ordered him to report Nov. 7 for a physical exam and possible reclassification. In Munich, where he's filming Jack of Diamonds, George broke his usual silence about the matter: "I do feel that I have an obligation toward my country. If they want...
...nature of quasi-stellar objects (TIME cover, March 11). Its biologists and chemists, including James Bonner and Linus Pauling, have advanced knowledge of the basic chemistry of human life. Physicist Richard Feynman is helping to unify the theories of gravitational and electrodynamic fields, and his colleague, Murray Gell-Mann, broke new ground in subatomic theory by correctly predicting the existence of new particles. Seismologist Charles F. Richter's scale for measuring earth tremors is an international standard...
When World War II broke out in Europe, Foujita fled back to Japan only to find more of it. There he did military paintings from photographs. After Japan's defeat, his samurai cousins, a marshal and a count, were held to be war criminals; but the artist was found blameless, and he rushed back to Paris. He is still exuberant, worked ten hours a day on his Reims chapel for the champagne growers. But he did not indulge in their product. Says he dryly: "I never touch a drop of alcohol...
...condemned to face a firing squad occurred on the night of Oct. 12, 1959, after Simmons entered Mexico from Laredo, Texas, about 45 minutes behind a Monterrey dentist named Raúl Pérez Villagómez. Roughly 43 miles south of Laredo, the dentist's car broke down. Leaving his younger brother and two sisters behind, Villagómez went for help. When he got back to his car, his brother and one sister were dead, riddled with .22-cal. bullets. Hilda Villagómez, 18, had been shot seven times, and was barely alive...