Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flag in public, the murder of prominent citizens including your own President, drug addiction-you name it and you've got it. No thanks; we'll keep our Royal Family and all the decadence that goes with it. You keep your Black Panthers and the almighty dollar...
...efficiency expert and auditor at the Pentagon, Fitzgerald has been giving interested Congressmen detailed, inside descriptions of how multibillion-dollar contracts grow between the assignment and delivery dates. Though he has found eager listeners among critics of the military on Capitol Hill, the Pentagon has chosen to treat him as a mildly treasonous pest...
...revoked because of "a computer error." He says that his mail is being opened. One letter even bore the initials and stamp of the "action officer" who had opened it. He still toils quietly in the same windowless, fifth-floor office. Instead of monitoring the costs of the multibillion-dollar C-5A and F-lll, he now spends his time evaluating relatively minor projects. His first assignment was to review construction of a bowling alley in Thailand. His finding: a $100,000 overrun...
...variations of the old stag film or skin flick, draw more customers in some cities than the hard-ticket Hollywood product. Ranging from 20 minutes of nudie shorts to the sophisticated voyeurism of Directors Russ Meyer (Vixen) and Radley Metzger (The Dirty Girls), sex films are now a multimillion-dollar-a-year industry. Exhibited in well-appointed cinemas that charge $3 and up for admission, they have moved from the tenderloin to midtown...
...Motte glacier and hunting wild boar in the Soviet Union. During his four years as De Gaulle's Finance Minister, he imposed drastic deflationary curbs, which were partly blamed for last year's unrest, but gave De Gaulle the foreign exchange wherewithal to attack sterling and the dollar. Ungraciously sacked by the general in 1966, Giscard used his own small party to follow a policy of "Yes, but"-a policy that Pompidou once characterized as "between two chairs, and I hope they fall on their derrière." Giscard landed on his feet, and now promises to proceed...