Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After ten days of work stoppages, with drastic losses for Czechoslovakia's already ailing economy, factory laborers relit blast furnaces and returned to their work benches. The 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew was lifted. Nightclubs and cinemas reopened. One showed My Fair Lady, but another slyly screened The Good Soldier Schweik. Svelte bar girls in scalloped miniskirts or skintight trousers flitted through the cocktail lounge at Prague's Esplanade Hotel. The juggler was even back in action at Prague's Tetran club, though he tended to drop more plates than usual...
There is nothing dull about the good people of Sultan, Wash, (pop.: 960). They like a county fair as much as any body else, and they'll whoop and holler with the best of them. But what happened last week was the wildest thing in Sultan's history since the 1884 visit of the Black Diamond Minstrel Company. By the thousands, strangers streamed into the tiny hamlet hard by the Skykomish (Big Sky) River, 48 miles northeast of Seattle. As the incredulous Sultanites watched, onward trooped hundreds of hippies, pseudo hippies, camp followers, hangers-on, even some ordinary...
...three days and three nights, through intermittent downpours, the musicians held the first Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter than Air Fair. The music was incessant, loud, wild and swinging-folk rock, just plain folk, acid rock, cool jazz, blues, country and Western. There were tents pitched in Betty's muddy meadow, but nobody did much sleeping. The first night, everybody stayed up listening to the music until 2:30 a.m., then watched a psychedelic light show and underground movies. The next night, they never went to bed at all. With the morning came a "Sun Dance." The musicians...
COCO, with book by Alan Jay Lerner (My Fair Lady), music by Andre Previn, the Hollywood tunesmith. Costumes and sets by Cecil Beaton. Starring Katharine Hepburn. Couturière Coco Chanel and the Beautiful People...
...Washington. He accused the Justice Department of "applying theoretical concepts without supporting facts." Unregulated rates, he said, would cause brokers to switch a good deal of trading from the exchange floor to their offices, creating splintered markets in which ordinary investors would have trouble buying or selling at fair prices. Chairman Gustave L. Levy of the N.Y.S.E. board of governors was even blunter. Justice's proposal, he said, would convert the Big Board into a mere "quotation bureau with limited activity." The reason is that many large firms, including Goldman, Sachs & Co., of which Levy is a senior partner...