Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French-educated descendant of Cambodia's medieval Khmer kings, he once performed slapstick parts in movies (which he produced himself) and has often played slapstick politics. Friends seriously reported last week that two contributing reasons for Sihanouk's bad mood might be that 1) he had been crash-dieting to lose 15 Ibs. in ten days, and 2) the U.S. transferred a former military advisory chief with whom the Prince enjoyed playing volleyball. The Prince himself accused the U.S. of supporting a clandestine radio, on South Viet Nam soil, run by the Prince's political opposition...
...owns the moon - lovers and songwriters, or the first nation to establish a base there? Who pays damages if one country's space capsule crash-lands in another's biggest city? May political propaganda be beamed to earth from space? Or TV commercials? When the U.S. orbits a reconnaissance satellite, are the Russians entitled to knock it out if they can, like another U2? If space explorers meet a race of intelligent nonhumans, how are men and bug-eyed monsters to live together under the rule of law? Such questions were once the specialty of science-fiction writers...
...Wheeler Dealers provides the dreariest view of Wall Street since the crash of '29. Billed as satire, it opens bullish, closes bearish, but mostly just bumbles along with a portfolio full of otiose gags about Texas, the sexes (at least three), and stockbrokers-with the brokers depicted as a shifty lot who spend their time peddling worthless securities to unsuspecting clients. The plot has something to do with a young speculator who arrives in Manhattan from Texas, buys the first taxicab he climbs into, snaps up a swank restaurant because his date likes to eat there, impulsively flies...
Although it may be desirable to put a man on the moon eventually, the senselessness and waste of our crash program seem obvious, particularly now that the Russians have slackened the pace of their own. President Kennedy should seize the opportunity presented by the Soviet slowdown to completely reassess NASA's operations. A rational and scientific space research program if, after all, long overdue...
When swashbuckling Enrico Mattei was killed in a plane crash last year, the man who took over Italy's state oil monopoly was so old-72-that many Italians scoffingly dubbed him the "interim pope." But in one year on the job as chief of Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (E.N.I.), Marcello Boldrini, a former professor of statistics, has proved as aggressively expansive as Mattei. Traveling from the Volga to the Congo, Boldrini has won a barrel of new business for E.N.I. and spearheaded Italian commercial penetration abroad...