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Dates: during 1960-1969
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French Czar. By 1957, show-business people in France had begun, not very precisely, to call Levy "the czar of French cinema." He won the title, typically, on a gamble, bringing together an unknown starlet named Bardot and a neophyte director named Vadim. And God Created Woman cost less than $400,000, but Levy plastered the world with publicity and grossed ten times that much in the U.S. alone. He made a handful of other pictures, including four more with Bardot, but he had neither the money nor the skills of a long-run mogul...
...that for me," she said, "then I'll marry him." But no man ever did. In 1931, while sitting onstage during a performance of Jongleur de Notre-Dame in Chicago, she decided that "I have given enough," went to her dressing room after the last curtain call, put on her coat and never returned...
...years her Minh Quy hospital has admitted 12,000 different patients, and no one has counted the outpatients who show up for treatment during clinic hours. The Viet Cong give Dr. Smith no direct trouble, probably because the Montagnards have formed a living shield around the woman they now call Ya Pagang Tih-"Big Grandmother of All Medicine...
What most bothered Detroit was the prospect that its 1967 models would run into further decline. Last month, each of the Big Three sold fewer cars than in December 1965. Production schedules for this month call for an output of only 720,000 cars v. 816,000 last January. Last week Ford knocked off a production day at many of its plants, decided to drop a number of low-seniority workers altogether. Chrysler meanwhile shut down its St. Louis assembly plant for a week. Beleaguered American Motors, which suffered a 17.4% sales loss last year...
...Schelling, "black markets may provide the central core (or 'infra-structure') of underworld business, capable of branching out into other lines." The underworld economy probably grew out of the Prohibition-era bootleg liquor industry, which "may have put underworld business in the U.S. in what economic developers call the 'takeoff' into self-sustained growth...