Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...style structure that houses the West German Economics Ministry, Schiller wasted little time in making clear his opposition to the revaluation of the mark. As the meeting dragged on into evening, tempers began to flare. "They did everything except throw chairs at each other," said one participant. Bitter exchanges broke out between the world's leading monetary managers. According to one report, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer lectured the West German Finance Minister "as if he were a member of the Conservative Opposition." Jenkins himself was heckled outside the ministry by Germans who were protesting against British...
...With Communist and anti-Communist unions allied in protest for the first time in twenty years, demonstrators poured into the piazzas of Rome and Milan to demand higher pension and social security benefits and to curse the rising cost of living. Outside the Fiat automobile plant in Turin, police broke up a riot with tear...
When Truman Capote first viewed the TV adaptation of his autobiographical tale, A Christmas Memory, he broke down and wept. Viewers across the country also found it one of the most affecting dramas ever seen on U.S. television. Then Capote wrote The Thanksgiving Visitor, another chapter in his portrait of the artist as a young boy. As before, Frank and Eleanor Perry, the husband-and-wife moviemaking team (David and Lisa), adapted and produced the film. And once again, the result, which ABC has scheduled for Thanksgiving night, is a rare, lyrical hour for television...
...first month, Sarno's midway attraction seems to be paying off. Circus Circus has drawn an average of 15,000 people a day, including the woman who on opening day broke her leg sliding down a fire pole intended to convey guests from level to level (the pole is no longer in use). Some customers still grump at the amusements. "It's like Disneyland," said a restaurant manager from Covina, Calif. But most are enthusiastic. "It's just like when I was a kid," said Robert Locke, a retired steamfitter from Long Beach, Calif. Said Mrs. Sigmund...
...ensuing face-to-face confrontation, Miss Kirk broke down, and, weeping, confessed, "Yes, I go to Vassar." Her teammates, however, quickly added that she had been writing for the News all semester. The CRIMSON learned later from Daily chairman Alan Boles that Miss Kirk is chief of the Poughkeepsie Bureau...