Word: holdings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these not the same men who have constituted the majority of our leadership through recent years? These who cannot even hold a convention without chaos? Perhaps we are closer to anarchy than we suspect. Or is that what Wallace has been trying to tell...
Evening rallies, which are too late for the evening news and too early for the next night's program, will be few and far between. "Why should you hold a rally for 15,000 or 20,000 people," says one top aide, "when with TV you can get the whole state?" Evening banquets will go the way of torchlight parades. "All you get at banquets are drunks and fat cats," adds the adviser. "And banquets are the worst possible kind of TV. There is no rhyme or reason for it to be done...
...Soviet ambassadors were under special instruction last week to once more inform the West that Czechoslovakia was a purely domestic affair and that no invasion was under consideration for that other errant East bloc country, Rumania. Even so, Soviet actions were less than reassuring. In addition to tightening their hold on captive Czechoslovakia (see following story), the Soviets kept up the pressure on Rumania by insisting that it open new talks on their bilateral "friendship treaty," which President and Party Boss Nicolae Ceauşescu had resisted for nearly a year. Ceauşescu last week caved...
...kingdom is, in a way, only exchanging the rule of Britain for the suzerainty of South Africa. Swaziland is surrounded on three sides by its giant white neighbor and is effectively dominated by it. South Africans already own or manage most of Swaziland's business and industry and hold much of the 44% of the country's land owned by foreigners. Swaziland uses the South African rand as a medium of exchange. South African customs inspectors control the flow of its commerce. Air travelers to Swaziland must even pass through the Johannesburg airport passport controls. Despite their dislike...
Died. Dennis O'Keefe, 60, breezy cinemactor of the 1930s, '40s and '50s, who played in scores of films, including Hold That Kiss, Brewster's Millions, T-Men; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Edward Flanagan was his name, bit parts and stunting were his game when O'Keefe was discovered by Clark Gable in 1937 and given a screen test that started his career as filmdom's comic guy-next-door. By the late '40s, he was writing and directing his own movies; he tried TV with The Dennis O'Keefe...