Word: hunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grumbling got so loud that even President Tito admitted in a speech that "a real witch hunt was started against the alleged enrichment of artisans, and excessively high taxes were levied against them." He suggested the matter be attended to. Last week the Yugoslav Parliament was preparing to pass a new tax law that "will not discourage the development of crafts." The party's official mouthpiece, Belgrade's Daily Borba, offered a distinctly non-Marxian rationale for the retreat: "The law treats private craftsmen as an additional but significant economic branch which fits well in the system...
...narrow dirt road runs near U.S. 50, close to Middleburg, Va. As it comes to a dead end, a green-painted plank gate on the left bars the entrance to a private byway named Segregation Lane, which runs along the zealously observed boundary between the hunt territories of the Piedmont Fox Hounds and the Orange County Hunt. Beyond the green gate, on Rattlesnake Mountain,* armed U.S. Secret Service agents live in green G.I. tents, keeping 24-hour guard around a still-uncompleted country home. When the home is finished, about April 1, Jack and Jackie Kennedy will move...
...Betancourt, they hoped to make Venezuela's old-line military officers nervous enough about Betancourt's inability to keep order to do the job for them. But Betancourt made peace with his soldiers, and out in the countryside, peasants who elected him President loyally helped the government hunt down the guerrillas. Fidel Castro's Havana radio still cries daily for violent revolution. But the campaign has dwindled to desperate terrorist raids and publicity stunts like the hijacking of the freighter Anzoátegui (see next story...
...Troy and the works of Aristotle, even a scene showing Caesar receiving a German ambassador. Since the miniatures were never exposed to light as much as ordinary paintings, they furnish an especially vivid record of the medieval mind. One can almost hear the dogs yelping in the boar hunt of Louis Malet, Sire de Graville and Grand Admiral of France. The golden Flagellation, done around 1350, shows the medieval struggle with the problems of perspective, while the exquisite Crucifixion, painted nearly a century later by an artisan in the workshop of the master of the Rohan Hours, has a deep...
...little like a treasure hunt. At 6:30 p.m. one evening last week, the phone rang at Caracas' daily El Nacional. The caller's curious request: check the ashtray near the elevator on the second floor. At the same time, editors of La República were told to look in the trash can near the proofreaders' rest room. In both places were notes from the publicity-grabbing Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), a pro-Castro terrorist group that is trying to make things difficult for Venezuela's middle-reading President Rómulo Betancourt...