Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meyer speaks slowly, seeming to deliberate over the specific word that will best express each thought. His wry optimism and homey mannerisms have led some to compare him with Lincoln, and his own special synthesis of principle and realism strengthens this impression. "They may call me naive, but I have my streaks of skepticism and bitterness, you know. Life demands that everybody work out his own compromises and settlements...
...French President and a special envoy of the Sultan of Turkey were on the flag-bedecked platform at Paris' Care de I'Est when the Orient Express chugged proudly off on its maiden trip to Constantinople in 1883. On that first trip, the 2,000-odd miles took six days and six hours, what with all the border ceremonies and crowds along the track.* The seats had velvet covers topped by Brussels lace, and lush damask .curtains hung from the windows; the fittings were of solid oak and mahogany; on the outside of every car was a coat...
Spies & Vanishing Briefcases. For decades the Orient Express served as grist for the mills of novelists (e.g., Agatha Christie, Graham Greene, Eric Ambler), who conjured up (a) fur-wrapped beauties from Hungary in conspiratorial conversation with spies in the corridor, (b) muffled sobs in the next compartment, or (c) vanishing briefcases. The only things that ever really vanished were the good service and the passengers. By the 1920s most of the lush old cars had been replaced with stern steel models, and the porters wore drab brown, offering special attention only when the palm was well greased with hard currency...
Last week the coldly practical railroad experts of Europe, meeting in Leningrad, were agreed: the old Orient Express no longer paid its way, must therefore be eliminated. Now anyone who wanted to spend two days traveling to Istanbul would have to endure the slicker, upstart Simplon-Orient Express, which swings south through Switzerland into Italy and then on across Yugoslavia, delivering its passengers efficiently enough but without the luxury their grandfathers had known...
...Gold fever!" cried the London Daily Express. For a change, the fever-pitched Express was not exaggerating. In a stampede of investors and speculators anxious to exchange U.S. dollars for bullion, gold prices took off last week on their most spectacular rise since London's gold exchange reopened in 1954. Starting at just over $35.25 an ounce (about the same as the U.S. price of $35 an ounce, with transportation and insurance added), gold prices broke free of their old ceiling at week's beginning, jumped to $35.65 for the biggest one-day advance in the exchange...