Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing against the mini-mod set, but.for her wedding Julie Nixon chose an old-fashioned gown with schoolgirl sleeves, high collar and pearl-embroidered yoke...
...politician in Brazil able and anxious to make a public speech last week was Arthur da Costa e Silva, President of the republic. In the wake of an army coup the week before that had closed down the Congress, caused widespread arrests and limited civil rights, Costa e Silva chose an obvious audience. In a 15-minute speech, the retired marshal gave the commencement address to the graduating class of the army's high-command school in Rio de Janeiro. Since the audience included military men who had engineered the coup, Costa e Silva went...
...tenure, U.S. Steel's share of domestic steel sales has slipped from 30% to 25%. Last week, hoping to reverse that trend sharply, the world's largest steelmaker picked a new management group. To succeed Lawyer Blough as chairman and chief executive, Big Steel's directors chose Edwin H. Gott, 60, an operations man who has been president for the past 18 months...
Released in 1958, Morgan resumed his practice in Washington, D.C. This time he chose the name of a Californian, Lawrence Harris, a member of the D.C. bar who had never practiced there, and he claimed Harvard Law School as his alma mater. He had lost none of his flair. After a particularly florid and emotional summation at one mur der trial, Morgan spun around before the astonished jurors and fell in a dead faint. He tried some two dozen criminal cases before he was uncovered again. Convicted of fraud, he was sent to Leavenworth prison in Kansas...
...largely disbanded, LSD had given way to methedrine, and the crash pads echoed to the frenetic screams of "speed freaks"; the grisly murder of "Groovy" Hutchinson and Linda Fitzpatrick cast a pall over hippiedom. Only a small band of the movement's founders and gurus, including Hoffman, chose to form a political link with the ideological New Left. The result was the Youth International Party (YIP), which was founded at least partly in hopes of converting the angrily activist Students for a Democratic Society to a more lenient and joyful concept of revolution...