Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form, Pompidou seemed less disturbed by the news than anyone else; he simply removed his favorite modern oil paintings from Matignon, set up an office on the Left Bank and waited for life to come to him. Or seemed to wait. Actually, he made a point of keeping in close touch with Gaullist friends, listening sympathetically to their complaints and quietly gathering up loyalty for the future...
...Viet Cong flags on the National Monument, which commemorates the Resistance of World War II. A police inspector, trapped by young toughs, was burned on the face with cigarette butts. In London, militant workers used May Day to protest the government's plan to outlaw wildcat strikes. Close to 100,000 workers stayed home, and the docks of London, Hull and Manchester shut down...
...costs, and stock prices as measured by the Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks. The stock indicator does, however, show a rise for April. Overly excited by European political events and peace prospects in Viet Nam, investors sent the 500 up by 2.28 points last week to close at 104; the narrower Dow-Jones average of 30 industrials climbed 33 points to 957 for its best week-long rally in 13 months...
...Revaluation of the German mark (see Money, page 90) could cut into exports by raising prices in foreign countries, where the company does more than three-quarters of its business. VW is also being tail-gated by hustling Japanese automakers. Last year, Japanese competition in Australia forced VW to close down assembly lines that had once produced more than 20,000 beetles a year; the equipment now assembles cars for Japan's Nissan Motor...
...exist, the New York Review of Books might have had to invent her. One moment, in fact, not very long ago she did not exist. The next moment she was everywhere-the new darling of the literary set. Norman Podhoretz, author of Making It, Commentary editor and close student of cultural chic, explained the Sontag phenomenon this way: When Mary McCarthy arrived at "the more dignified status of Grande Dame," she left a vacancy as "Dark Lady of American Letters." With a timing she herself would be the first to appreciate, Miss Sontag appeared in the early 1960s to fill...