Word: condor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wharf, for abalone and prawns. There are some of the best restaurants in the U.S. There are the swinging nightspots of North Beach, where the most popular dance is that variation of the twist called "the Swim," which, until last week at least, was taught at The Condor by an instructress in a topless swimming suit atop the piano...
...armada the "baking powder fleet," but through astute management his fleet of 67 tankers and freighters has kept busy without resorting-as some German shipping companies have-to running Soviet-bloc cargoes for Castro. Characteristically, Oetker got into the insurance business to pare his premiums, built his Condor companies into one of Germany's biggest full-line insurance firms...
...partners. Most Western Europeans had reluctantly come to accept U.S. bases in Spain as necessary to the defense of the West, but they were not prepared to make any such allowances for Germany, mindful of the bonds that once linked Franco and Hitler and the Nazi airmen of the Condor Legion who helped bring Franco to power. In London, 140 Opposition M.P.s signed a resolution protesting Strauss's plan, and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan himself expressed his disapproval to visiting German parliamentarians. Said the Church Times, unofficial voice of the Church...