Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Affixed to a wall, the marble belly but ton, an omphalos with oomph, looks like a poached ostrich egg with the yel low plucked out. Leaflets shaped like navels showered from rooftops. As the crowd finally repaired to a popular café for disrepair, the mayor turned to a bystander and whispered: "I just don't understand why this thing had so much success...
Public hearings will be held, probably in May, to evaluate some of the river's troubles and to ponder some possible solutions. But Roger C. Albitson, project engineer, noted yesterday that some of the river's problems are pretty obvious. The river's "rotten egg" smell, he said, is the result of brackishness and pollution...
...Golden Eggs. Every boom brings its dislocation, and Spain's pell-mell rush to industrialize is no exception. The flood of workers to the cities has sharply cut farm production, forcing Spain to import food. Government spending to feed the development plan has brought a new round of inflation at home, and a horrendous $2 billion trade deficit abroad-too much even for tourist dollars to make up for. Many economists fear that Spain is trying to do too much too quickly. "Our economy is the goose that lays the golden egg," warns Ullastres...
...this remake, MGM cooks the goose that laid the golden egg. Rarely have so many charmless performers been assembled. Zing, freshness, warmth, humor and yay-team vitality have been banished-presumably to please a new generation that will never know what it missed. The Garland-Rooney roles are taken over by Singers Connie Francis and Harve Presnell, who mope through the vintage show tunes as though they have memorized the words and music while disowning the message. Instead of getting-the-gang-together-to-put-on-a-dandy-show, they are paying off a gambling debt for Connie...
...tricks or gimmicks here. There is no lack of diplomatic energy or effort on our part to bring the war to a peaceful conclusion. We could have peace in 24 hours if the other side stops what it is doing. The only other thing-the only other egg we could add to this basket-would be South Viet Nam itself. Just give it to them. And that is what we will...