Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just about everybody in Europe but Charles de Gaulle wants Britain in the Common Market. The governments of Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and West Germany all favor British entry. Continental businessmen want a crack at the 55 million potential customers in Britain; the European public would like to line up with such a swinging partner; and even Germany's most outspoken Gaullist, Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, now feels that British admission is necessary to help Europe narrow the technology gap with...
Realizing that 120 newspapers in Paris and the French provinces are not enough to finance A.F.P.'s worldwide operations, Marin is conscious of the need to expand abroad. Toughest market to crack thus far has been the Anglo-American press. This year A.F.P. at least got its foot in the door when both the New York Times and the Times of London joined its growing list of regular subscribers...
...participants in the long, clandestine process from poppy field to market have worked together in comparative peace. Even renegade soldiers who support themselves by exacting tribute from every passing opium caravan have been accepted as part of the action. No more. Of late, the jungle has resounded to the crack of rifle fire, the roar of mortars, recoilless rifles and even fighter-bombers. An ugly, internecine little opium war is under way, and it rivals in complexity, if not in fire power, the struggle in nearby Viet...
Some of the Twins resent Cal's crack down. Pitcher Grant, one of the late-to-beds fined by Ermer, wants to be traded. But most respect his toughness, and the team's new dedication to duty ("They're playing for their lives," explained a Minnesota newsman) shows in the box scores. Since Ermer took over, the Twins have played 25 games that were decided by one run-and they have won 14 of them, including a 3-2 victory over the White Sox last week that won them the league lead...
...real question was which boat-Connie, Eagle or Columbia-would get still another crack at Intrepid in a final-final, two-boat series of races for the defender's job. It almost certainly was not going to be Eagle, which had yet to win a race. Constellation's status was shaky, too, after she blew a 1 min. 3 sec. lead and lost to Columbia by 4 min. 16 sec. The likeliest candidate was Columbia, the rebuilt (at a cost of $125,000) 1958 Cup winner, which was refurbished all over again after losing twice to Intrepid...