Word: ets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...site of Expo 67, on mainly manmade islands in the St. Lawrence River, the pavilions of 70 nations, which are now abuilding, will welcome visitors. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have already accepted invitations. The Parliament buildings in Ottawa will provide a backdrop for a May-to-October son et lumiere spectacle, and Sir Tyrone Guthrie, the Shakespearean showman who launched Canada's Stratford, will produce a centennial spectacle on Parliament Hill...
Leven, a sixth-generation member of a family prominent in Paris business, negotiated patiently for eight years to acquire Vichy. A controlling 43.8% interest in Vichy is held by a beer firm called Brasseries et Glacières de 1'Indochine (BGI). Perrier in turn owns 33% of BGI. The swap that Leven finally arranged was to give BGI its 33% and in return take the controlling interest in Vichy. Perrier has acquired another 10% of Vichy shares from other stockholders. Perrier will not only bottle the water from the twelve mineral springs in the town of Vichy...
...that it is quite apparent that the expanded bombing in Viet Nam [July 8 et seq.) is failing to attain any constructive result, I invite consideration of my "Fourth Alternative," which is for the U.S. to take all feasible measures to quiet down the war, to de-escalate it, to change the priority emphasis to economic, educational, social, and political factors, and to contemplate a decade or more of competition of systems in Viet...
...indicative-and amusing-effects of American influence has been the infiltration of American English into other languages. Japanese sometimes sounds like Japlish: masukomi for mass communications, terebi for TV, demo for demonstration and the inevitable baseballisms pray bollu, storiku and hitto. Franglais permits a Frenchman to do le planning et research on le manpowerisation of a complexe industrielle before taking off for le weekend in le country. German now is splattered with such terms as discount house, shopping center, ready to wear and cash and carry. And the latest expression in Frankfurt ad agencies is Ziehn...
...mere pursuit of civil rights, said the U.S. Supreme Court with unexpected sternness last week, does not give an individual a license to break the law. The ruling came in the case of 29 demonstrators who had been arrested in Mississippi in 1964 (Greenwood v. Willie Peacock et al.), for such offenses as parading without a permit, obstructing traffic and biting a policeman...