Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many Greeks say that King Constantine chose Panayotis Kanellopoulos to head a new Greek Cabinet last week because Kanellopoulos has no children. The significance of the remark is that the new Premier's chief rival, George Papandreou, 79, a former Premier of Greece and the head of the powerful Center Union Party, is the father of the enfant terrible of Greek politics. His son Andreas, 48, who sits in the Greek Parliament, is the King's most relentless critic, an unpredictable, highly ambitious leftist who once headed the department of economics at the University of California at Berkeley...
Municipal elections ordinarily carry little political importance in Chile, but President Eduardo Frei chose to lift last week's to the status of a national plebiscite. "It will be an opportunity," he said, "for the nation to say whether it is with the opposition or with the President it elected to carry out institutional reforms." Chileans took the opportunity, all right, but the results were not what Frei and just about everyone else had expected. While each of Chile's six other parties made substantial gains at the polls, Frei's Christian Democrats lost ground...
...Spanish government had permitted a movie to be shown of famed Cellist Pablo Casals, 90, who left his native land in bitter protest against Franco during the Spanish Civil War. There were indications, too, that the government would like to forgive and forget, would welcome him if he chose to return home. But Casals was ada mant. "There is no change in my attitude," said he from his exile home in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
...which he designed so that the ladies were prettily, if ingenuously, exposed, wearing at most diaphanous veils across the bosom. Seventeenth century ladies, however, were an imperious lot, and had no compunctions about altering their dress to suit themselves. History does not record how many of them actually chose to turn up bare-breasted at the festivities...
Under considerable pressure from some of his strongest Eastern supporters--Senators Javits, Scott, and Brooke, and Governor Rockefeller -- Romney chose his visit to Hartford last Friday as the proper time. He should be praised for ending his chronic irresolution...