Word: grand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...household allowance comes to $1,330,000 a year, and the allowances for the rest of the family to nearly $500,000 more. What with six palaces, the royal yacht, the Queen's flight of six assorted aircraft plus the cost of royal trains, telephone and postage, the grand total is nearly $6,000,000. No doubt a republican president might be able to shave these royal expenses, but drab ex-politicians usually do not do the job as well as kings and queens who are trained for it. And the more flamboyant types, from De Gaulle to Sukarno...
...other with its fingers held as for a blessing. Kiesinger, who until a few weeks ago was virtually unknown outside West Germany and known within it mainly as the Minister-President of a German state, then took the oath of office as head of an unprecedented government: a grand coalition of the two major parties?the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats?that have bitterly fought each other for years. A union of black and red, it was a marriage of convenience?but a stunning match nonetheless...
...Bundestag, it will have no effective opposition. Together the two parties will thus be able to undertake some badly needed reforms in German politics and make changes in German policy that neither would have the strength or courage to tackle alone. In foreign affairs in particular, the grand coalition will speak for Germany in a way that no single party ever could?and some changes are clearly in store...
Narrow Shoulders. Though Austria had a red-black coalition from 1945 until last spring, and a number of European countries have had wartime national-unity governments, the grand coalition is a totally new departure for West Germany. It naturally raised some apprehensions, both in Germany and abroad, about the fate of democracy without an effective parliamentary opposition. The burden of scrutinizing the government's actions will fall on the narrow shoulders of the Free Democrat delegation...
Football put Ford through school, fed him for a while, and gave him a start in politics. After winning all-city and all-state honors on his Grand Rapids high school team, Ford played first string center for Michigan's undefeated varsities in 1932 and 1933. As a senior in 1934, he was voted the most valuable player on the squad. And he paid part of his expenses at Yale Law School by serving as assistant football coach and freshman boxing coach. In 1948, following a stint in the Navy and two years of law practice in Grand Rapids, Ford...