Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spain by the grace of God" announced a new consti tution that will liberalize Spanish life and politics and prepare the country for the day when he is gone. The constitution dilutes Franco's dictatorial powers, strengthens the Cortes (Parliament), and paves the way for the government to develop into a constitutional monarchy...
...Chinese have cleared a twelve-mile border strip along the Sinkiang border as a security measure, and pumped in Chinese immigrants to farm -and defend - the territory. Russia is trying to do the same thing in Siberia, hoping to get a long-term economic pact with Japan to develop the Siberian economy...
...possible that new conflict will develop over the strength of student and Master choice within this system; last Spring, for example, there was some pressure for both the total abolition of the House Assignment Committee and for a limited return to autonomous Masters selections...
...that if France excludes them, U.S. companies will plant branches in other Common Market countries and then export freely to France (TIME, April 1). The Gaullists also have come to believe -after years of chauvinistic doubt-that U.S. capital and technology can benefit French industry. When Motorola offered to develop a semiconductor industry and invest generously in research, Debre gave the company permission to build a multi-million-dollar plant in Toulouse. Now General Electric, ITT and the Dutch Philips are vying to take over a French electric-equipment manufacturer, and the U.S. firms appear to have the edge. Says...
Terror is a sly and stylish send-up of costume chillers as well as of that silly ass with the deerstalker and the magnifying glass. Scriptwriters Derek and Donald Ford develop a delightfully nasty notion: why,not pit the most famous Victorian detective against the most notorious Victorian criminal-lack the Ripper. The confrontation contains some bloody-awful picture possibilities, and Director James Hill (Born Free) has the wit to explode them as he exploits them. The bloodiest, of course, are presented by those scenes in which the Ripper, swathed in the sort of corpse-grey fog the last century...