Word: fractious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With typical enterprise, one shopping-center theater has encouraged car-borne family attendance by installing a 40-seat, glass-enclosed "cry room" for mothers with fractious children. And as a daytime lure, the $1,000,000 Golf Mill Theater in Niles. Ill., invites housewives to bring their dirty laundry to the movies with them and drop it off at the box office. The wash is whisked to a nearby automatic laundry, and when the women leave the theater, their clean clothes are waiting for them, dry and neatly packaged. In fact, the shopping-center theater has revived the old habit...
Brazil. After a six-week testing of wills with the country's fractious Congress, President Joao ("Jango") Goulart and his Prime Minister, Francisco Brochado da Rocha, finally managed to achieve a kind of truce. In the Brasilia capital, Brochado da Rocha bluntly told Congress: "We are living at the door of a revolution. This government lacks the power to govern." That, plus his threat to resign, seemed to sink in. Legislators granted the government a package of emergency powers to keep the country together until next October's congressional elections, plus a promise to vote on returning Brazil...
After three weeks without a government, Brazil's fractious politicians finally got together on a Prime Minister and a Cabinet to join President Joāo ("Jango") Goulart at the helm of Latin America's biggest nation. They did so not because they had resolved their difficulties or agreed on the best man, but because they realized that Brazil had just about reached the edge of safety, and could not stand a further prolongation of the bitter, partisan bickering. The new government that took office in the outback capital of Brasilia represented an expedient truce between warring factions...
...chose the celebrity-crowded Au Petit Jean to exchange dialogue that would make longtime California Neighbor Henry Miller blush and that did in fact bring hysterical tears from their dinner companion. Rita's daughter (by the late Aly Khan). Princess Yasmin, 12. Soon bounced from the restaurant, the fractious couple were carted off in separate cars. Next day Rita, who has been capering on two continents with Gary ever since her fifth divorce last September, proclaimed that the Thirty Minutes' War was over. What about the romance? "Well," appraised she, "there was nothing on, really...
...that may turn dangerous. At first the question was whether Labor-Boss João ("Jango'') Goulart as President or Tancredo Neves, a financier-turned-politician, as Prime Minister would actually lead the country. In fact, neither does. Nobody does. In remote Brasilia, the fractious Parliament carries on politics as usual. The far left hopes to proceed from chaos to power. It is up to dedicated second-echelon technicians to slow inflation and keep the nation running...