Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Columbia). The name this group chose for themselves may sound a bit square and their topics-sex, drugs and what's wrong with the U.S. -are hardly novel. Yet the gut level lyrics and third stream rock accompaniment are inventive and challenging. The ring modulator and Durrott Synthesizer, electronic instruments, are used as if they were invented for this group...
Royal Secrets. Nicolson was more at home when the royal family chose him to write the official biography of King George V. The task consumed three years, but he obviously enjoyed it, not only because the assignment was an honor but also because it gave him the opportunity to interview all the members of the royal family. Characteristically, his diary entries during this period bustle with provocative footnotes to history. For example, his interview with the late Queen Mary, who discussed the relations between her husband George and his sons: "She said that the real difficulty had been with...
Likeliest Guess. Between the two sides there still exists what one Soviet expert calls "a limited adversary relationship." It is not clear why the Russians chose to make some of their conciliatory gestures on nuclear arms. The likeliest guess remains the most obvious: prudent self-interest, a desire to avoid the scattering of nuclear weapons to small nations, and a grim, costly race between the U.S. and Russia to build antiballistic-missile systems. But there is a more intriguing theory-that the Russians acted now because they are concerned about the prospect that Richard Nixon may be the next President...
...night, a high-ranking army officer rang up slumbering President Abdul Rahman Aref and announced: "I am speaking from the Ministry of Defense. Tanks are now proceeding toward the palace." Aref received quick confirmation when five warning shots split the quiet night. He chose to capitulate. Soon, with hardly a hint of further violence, he was put aboard a special Iraqi airliner to join his ailing wife in London. In his place, a nine-man, military "revolutionary Command Council" effortlessly established itself in power...
...extended the offer to buy, as he had the option to do, he surely would have wound up with the full 2,000,000 shares. Instead, Hughes chose to withdraw his offer. His Hughes Tool Co. cited ABC management's "inordinate opposition" as the cause for giving up. More likely, the main reason was a very personal one-reclusive Howard Hughes's reluctance to show himself in public. Back in 1963, he gave up his right to manage TWA rather than make a court appearance. Now, at ABC's request, the Federal Communications Commission scheduled hearings...