Word: eves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considerably to the right of the Social Democrats. Their leader, Hilmar Baunsgaard, 48, was summoned at week's end to Christiansborg Palace by King Frederik IX to form a new government. Baunsgaard has displayed a pacifistic aversion to NATO, but he profited only slightly from the election-eve crash of a U.S. nuclear bomber in Danish-owned Greenland. He must form a coalition with other center parties, who undoubtedly will compel him to keep Denmark on its pro-Western course...
...Papandreou, 48, who held U.S. citizenship from 1944 to 1964, was released from an Athens prison by the junta's Christmas Eve amnesty. Last week he flew to Paris, where he denounced the present regime as "repressive and dictatorial," warned it to step aside or face a civil war, and called for the establishment of a nonaligned "progressive" government in Greece...
...watched mission was the five-day sojourn in Cambodia by U.S. Ambassador to India Chester Bowles. It was also the most surrealistic. Chief of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk, worried that the Viet Nam war might spread into his country, asked the U.S. to send an emissary. Then, on the eve of Bowles's arrival, he executed one of his more spectacular volte-faces by declaring that the ambassador would be better off visiting the ruins of Angkor Wat than talking...
...chips by masterminding a ring of domestics who specialize in plundering New York department stores. When the old lady hires a pert new secretary (Barbara Feldon) with a suspicious nature, the wily Fitzwilly (Dick Van Dyke) has to scramble to bring off the big one-Gimbels on Christmas Eve...
...eve of Independence Day, August 7, the sous-prefet held a buffet dinner for all the important people in town. Everyone showed up in his best, either a suit or an ornate robe, and chatted pleasantly or danced during cocktails. Then a servant came out to announce that dinner was ready, and instantly the place was transformed. People jammed through the door, shoving each other out of the way to get in, shoveling enough food onto their plates to last the week. Last man got nothing...