Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...En route to Pennsylvania, the band had stopped at the station to transfer their instruments from the truck to the buses for a quick reveille at the nearby women's college. Sixty men appearing on your front lawn at 3 a.m. is an unsettling sight, and the groggy owner promptly called Poughkeepsie police...
...when C.D.U. fortunes were very much in question, Erhard took his political life in his hands by intervening personally in West Germany's biggest postwar strike, in which 400,000 metalworkers were off the job. Forcing a resumption of negotiations, he frightened labor leaders with threats of en actment of a German version of the Taft-Hartley law, then turned on management and extracted a substantial wage boost for the workers, though not nearly so much as labor was demanding. Similarly, he stepped in to break the deadlock between the U.S. and France during the Geneva talks on Common...
...even in success, la vie en rose eluded Edith Piaf. Her greatest love, Boxer Marcel Cerdan, was killed in a plane crash in 1949, and her first marriage ended in divorce. Four separate automobile accidents all but crushed her frail body, and she was racked with ulcers, jaundice, arthritis, and cirrhosis of the liver. She took to drugs and young men, married her second husband, Hairdresser Théo Sarapo, 25, only last year, when she was 46. Each misfortune marred her voice but only seemed to give new poignancy to her artistry. Despite doctors' warnings, the nearly crippled...
...more useful to the Soviets was a second Red Chinese defector who may well turn out to be a prize in the Sino-Soviet cold war to date. He was Chou Hsiang-pu, since 1957 a second secretary of Peking's legation in London. Chou was en route back home via Moscow with his wife and two children when he decided to stay in the Russian capital. Word soon leaked out to the Western press, but Kremlin officials clammed up about their catch and refused to confirm or deny the escape. One reason for Moscow's reticence...
...En route to the U.S., where TV pundits were already vying for guest interviews, photogenic Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu stopped over in Paris and more than lived up to her newspaper billing as "the Liz Taylor of politics." Chic and seductive, South Viet Nam's first lady did a bit of shopping, had her hair done at Carita ("I hope my husband doesn't notice I had my hair cut-he hates that"), and claimed that at heart she was just a little homebody. "I am always presented as a political animal," she complained. "I like home life...