Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the play's poverty of invention, the strongest scenes are the comedy episodes for which King has been able to develop his own non-Shakespearean business. The mock capture and interrogation of Parolles has, with the aid of a few concealing branches become almost a Marx Brothers' episode--fast, illogical, and packed with visual gags...
...Street. The next, more difficult step is up to the Administration. In a classic inflationary spiral such as the present one, when demand outpaces supply, and when monetary measures have been exhausted, the balance can only be evened by cutting Government spending or raising taxes-fast. "The time for action is now," said John Langum, president of Chicago's Business Economics, Inc. "Instead, we have this happy talk that everything is fine." Samuelson, anxious to prove that "the new economics is an honest economics, a two-way street," urged that the existing 7% investment tax credit for business...
...pilot, Major Stafford ("Jump") Myers, 46, jumped out and scrambled into a trench. Minutes later, his fellow pilot, Major Bernard Fisher, had braved the hail of fire to land his Skyraider on the same short strip. "Nobody's ever seen an old man like me run so fast in his life," Jump explained later. He made it safely to Fisher's plane, thanks to two other Skyraiders that sprayed bullets all around him-in one case dropping a North Vietnamese only 20 feet away from the sprinting Myers...
...Soviet-Rumanian companies, in which Russia had always controlled 51% and which handled most of Rumania's oil refining, river traffic and other key businesses. As always, the moves were slick and carefully timed so that Moscow was looking in another direction when Dej acted. A lover of fast cars who drove a supercharged Mercedes, Dej saved his caution for politics. But when he was ready to make his big move, the gear change was smooth and swift...
...party for parliamentary wives, former Tory Defense Minister Douglas Harkness stormed into the House to demand that Cardin prove his "statements, insinuations and allegations" or resign. "Let him go home to his wife and family and endure what we have to endure," chimed in another Tory, and only some fast political footwork headed off a no-confidence motion that might well have brought down Pearson's minority government on the spot...