Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There are a few comments I would like to make about the story on the Penn Central merger...
Nothing daunted, she hopped aboard the plane for Paris. But it was not so easy. First, she discovered, there was no central purchasing agency. "Each policeman had bought his own cape," she says. And when she approached them directly in her faltering French, most Paris flics simply laughed in her face. "I felt foolish, so I flew right home," confesses Mrs. Barry. But once there, she was met with a barrage of accusations. "Everyone-my husband and my friends-accused me of giving up," she says. And so back she flew to Paris, determined to lick the problem...
...members in 35 cities. Unlike the others, it operates on the principle of "pay now, go later." Members kick in $995 in weekly installments over a three-year period. In each of the first two years, they are entitled to a ten-day vacation in the Caribbean or Central America. The third year brings the big payoff: 20 days in Europe...
...eagerly awaiting a European jackpot this summer, President Johnson's as yet unspecified intention to curb travel outside the hemisphere is adding anxiety. "I doubt that the European travel bans will really be prohibitive," says Weitzman, but the club is making plans for substitute 20-day trips to Central and South America-just in case...
...book's central conceit is its omniscient narrator, a fortyish hipster-nihilist who attempts to goad the characters into shucking their illusions by confronting them with their impotent squeals. Although the narrator ends his tale with the signature "Freddy Lambert," the key to his identity is,.dropped noisily on pase 371, where he is referred to as Xipe Totec, Our Lord of the Flayed Hide. Xipe Totec is the Mexican god of newly planted seed and of penitential torture. Like the maize seed that loses its husk as it begins to sprout, Xipe Totec gave food to mankind...