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Word: conti (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last out the third one." To mark Andrew Jackson's 200th birthday, the Johnsons breakfasted at the Hermitage, later visited the home of James Polk, a President whose name often gets lost in the jumble between Jackson and Lincoln but who turned the U.S. into a conti nent-spanning nation by acquiring territory now comprising Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, California and parts of Colorado and Wyoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Fighting the Other War | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...years the improbable gastronome had been dropping into the late Henri Soule's Le Pavilion restaurant whenever he came to Manhattan. When he did so, recalled an aide to the eatery's famed owner, "M. Soule saw to it that there was a bottle of Romance Conti at his table. Two of his favorite dishes are poulet mascotte and filet tie boeuf pe-rigourdinc." And so in Soule's will, filed for probate in Manhattan-and leaving the bulk of his estate of more than $1,000,000, including proceeds from the eventual sale of Le Pavilion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 25, 1966 | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

Soviet Switch. The first public inkling of Castro's split with Peking came on the eve of last month's Tri-Conti-nental Solidarity Conference in Havana, where 612 assorted "revolutionists" gathered for twelve days to map plans for upheaval in Africa, Asia and Latin America. On the surface, it seemed that Red China, with its "wars of national liberation," would command the most support among the hotheaded delegates. Russia, which has been soft-pedaling violent revolution and has openly favored the via pacifica in Latin America, seemed a poor second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Down with Imperialism--12,000 Miles Away | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

Rough Road. Despite the rebound, Britain's economy faces a rough road this summer. British tourists will soon begin their annual exodus abroad, cut ting into Britain's reserves as they eat and drink their way across the Conti nent. A bigger worry to Britain's money managers, however, is the extent to which the country's reserves will be drained by its staunchest foreign allies in the monetary battles-the nations of the sterling area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Sterling Signs: Good & Bad | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...France, that it wishes France to be great and strong, that it is doing all it can to help her to remain or become so once again. (1945) The Alliance has been built on the basis of integration, in which the defense of each of the countries of conti nental Europe, apart from England, has no national character, in which in fact all is commanded by the Americans, and it is the Americans who determine the use of your atomic weapons. (1960) The American interest is not always the French interest. This will be more and more true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE VISION OF CHARLES DE GAULLE | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

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