Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, the Soviet Politburo broke up into two groups and reportedly departed for the summit. One group was believed to have gone via Warsaw to brief Polish officials prior to the conference, and the other by way of East Germany to consult with party leaders there. The conference would most likely take place at either a villa at Zlatá Idka near Košice or a country lodge in the High Tatra Mountains. In both places, the Soviet leaders could easily beckon Russian troops who are tarrying in Eastern Slovakia. However close the troops...
...Newport's Ocean Drive, he sails his own 20-ft. gaff-rigged sloop. After studying architecture in Paris, he experimented with abstract expressionist painting and junk sculpture in a Manhattan loft. Then one day he stepped into an elevator that wasn't there, and the fall broke both his legs. In the course of his six-months' hospitalization he meditated and discovered his true bent. Today he first sketches his ideas on paper, next lays out a full-scale model in string, finally orders the plywood and starts cutting. (His wife Jackie helps with the sanding...
...year. If Bob Gibson talks tough, though, he pitches even tougher. At 32, he has been around the majors for nine years, winning 20 games in 1965 and 21 in 1966. He was headed for an other 20-victory season last year when a line drive broke his left leg and put him out of action for six weeks. Neither that injury, nor a chronic soreness in his right arm, prevented Gibson from playing the hero's role in last year's World Series against the Boston Red Sox. In an amazing show of strength and stamina...
Leave he does, for an assignment in Hollywood, only to find his Salzburg companions arriving daily-adrift, usually broke, looking for movie money. Behrman's glimpse of Hollywood will not trouble the ghosts of novelists Evelyn Waugh and Nathanael West, but he does focus on something these satirists missed. Behrman's Hollywood is like a latter-day Paris or Geneva-an asylum for talented refugees who in fact fled to the area in the late...
Gradually, almost imperceptibly, the New Yorker was hypnotizing the crowd. He had the Conch, and he was not to release it. The side discussions broke up, and now everyone was listening to the mobile tactician. Some began asking concerned questions: "What happens when the cops catch us while we're running...