Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm policy that Opponents Breeding and Smith really come to grips. In the former Fifth District, Breeding is the three-term successor to liberal Republican Cliff Hope, an influential advocate of high federal farm supports. In the former Sixth District, Dole is the first-term successor to Republican Wint Smith, who loudly damned farm price supports as "regimentation...
...clearly visible in his fire-engine red tricot, his face turned upward to the skies, his arms outstretched as though asking the heavens for a miracle." In the dark of the night he was swept from his perch and died entangled in his rope against the face of the cliff...
...lawyer finds himself in the home of an architect. It is a plastic bubble swelling precariously from the side of a cliff. "A home is a place where man must live harmoniously with nature," says the architect. The lawyer gets lost in the house. He pounds frantically on the plastic walls, calling for help, as the camera draws back to show him there, like a fly dying in a bottle...
...gleaming Cadillac appeared on the cliff-hanging road from Amalfi, shouts of "Presidentessa Kennedy" rocked the medieval clifftop town of Ravello, once a haunt of Europe's rich and noble but now a quieter resort of 2,500 population. Before long, vacationing Jacqueline Kennedy and Daughter Caroline were settled in Villa Sangro, the 11th century house rented by Sister Lee Radziwill, and then it was off to the beach. Jackie whizzed out into the choppy bay behind an Italian navy speedboat, holding Caroline on the water skis ahead of her. It was great sport for 100 yards-until mother...
Arab Socialism. Despite administrative and economic bungling, Nasser has survived a series of cliff-hanging crises, from Suez in 1956 to last year's collapse of the United Arab Republic, when Syria violently withdrew from the coalition with Egypt. Nasser was so shaken by that event that he allowed his secret police to institute a virtual reign of terror. He pulled out of this scare about four months ago, just in time to avoid a serious political reaction against him. With the help of massive economic aid from the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund, he has made another...