Word: dom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single platoon: 45 newsmen. Japan and East Germany each sent six, Russia two, Nigeria one. Among the arrivals were many who had turned journalist just for the occasion: U.S. Novelist Irwin (The Young Lions) Shaw, whose "incisive understanding of the Nazi mentality" was under contract to Hearst; Indian Poet Dom Moraes, representing Encounter, a British magazine; U.S. Banker Ira Hirschmann for Look...
Their great, last-fling romance is unintentionally amusing since the high spots all seem to be haute couture and haute cuisine. She orders a batch of gowns from Balenciaga. He orders Dom Perignon 1934 and Chateau Lafite 1937 and takes her to dinner at Le Grand Vefour in Paris and other three-star restaurants in the Guide Michelin. When they look up from the menus, the lovers philosophize, ques-tion-and-answer fashion. She: "What are we, the bulls or the matadors?" He: "Always the bulls. But we think we're the matadors." As the lovers' time together...
...meeting. Their ideology with in a some kind of God, in al rights, and in classical ecocs, combined with nationalist ments -- is familiar indeed: egacy of Jefferson, of Hoover, aft. . . and a bit of McCarthy. The generally thinks of their as "conservative," yet in a the Young Americans For dom are radicals. For they ad, in effect, a fundamental re-ruction of present institutions, ing them into accord with cer- philosophical notions. Manhat- Center was not a wholly inapriate place for them to meet...
Methods of Repression. Paradoxically, wherever the new spirit of national free dom is on forced march - in Africa, Asia, the Middle East- freedom of the press is usually trampled underfoot. Once freed of their countries' colonial occupiers, the new rulers of Africa often modeled them selves not on libertarian standards but on the example of Africa's oldest black republic, Liberia, which has kept the press subjugated for 134 years...
...industry has attracted hungry investors. "Those Wall Street houses are after all of us to go public," says Random House President Bennett Cerf. "They go around waving certified checks in publishers' faces-and I've never seen a publisher yet that could resist a certified check." Ran dom House could not resist, put some 222,060 shares of its stock on sale last October for 11¼. It was eagerly snapped up, now sells for about $31. Harcourt, Brace stock first went on the market last summer at 23½, is selling at about 27. The stock...