Word: gree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Holding a Grudge. Kiesinger was furious. He went on TV to disavow Schroder, saying that "the Cabinet has by no means decided to cut the troop strength of the Bundeswehr to a considerable de gree, let alone by 60,000 men." While overall cutbacks will be made in projected defense budgets through 1971, he said, the defense budget for the next four years will actually be larger than at present. Kiesinger was joined by Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who holds a grudge against...
Bernard Feustman Gimbel was in the third generation of a merchandising family already well established and wealthy when he entered the business in 1907. He was therefore inevitably tab-loided as "the Merchant Prince." The condescending title never fitted the round-faced ruler of New York's Gree ley Square. In the 34 years he spent on the throne, first as president of Gimbel Bros., Inc., and later as chairman, Gimbel personally changed the family firm into an empire that this year will sell $600 million worth of merchandise in 27 Gimbels stores and 27 swankier Saks Fifth Avenue...
History's greatest specialist in creating stage comedy, Moliere, has been chosen for the inaugural production of a newly formed theatrical group, the Actors Playhouse of Boston, Inc. The players are making use of an intimate and attractive gree-and-gold theatre designed by Raymond Sovey in the Hotel Bostonian, and tailored to accommodate an audience of ninety-five...
From the vast snake pit of Manhattan's Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, Drs. Emanuel Messinger and Benjamin Apfelberg reported that, of 57,000 lawbreakers ex amined over 25 years, a scant 5% had ordinary mental illnesses rated as treat able. Most of the rest were, in some de gree, what psychiatrists call psychopaths or sociopaths - individuals whose consciences are either lacking or inert, and who choose to do what they want when they want. These are notoriously the patients with whom psychiatry has the least success. And in many courts, psychopathy is excluded from the catalogue of mental illnesses that...