Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stalemate" existing within the climate of European opinion lies in this question of whether to unite politically as a monolithic super-national state as the integrationists urge or to unite inter-governmentally as the de Gaullists insist...
Party spokesmen insist that the topic is still under discussion. A four-man commission is sounding out rank-and-file reaction to Gottwald's removal. The backing and filling points up one fact: the Czechs are a careful, canny and slow-moving people. Unlike neighboring Hungary, Poland or East Germany, Czechoslovakia has few outspoken malcontents and no likelihood of an uprising. The party, in return, is more lenient; the Czechs are allowed a relative cultural freedom. Western books sell briskly; J. D. Salinger is currently a favorite. Western films can be seen without stigma. In Prague, Designer Zdenka Bauer...
...sharp-eyed and pin-striped foreign bankers. In the past fortnight, U.S. gold reserves have fallen by $80 million, now stand at a 23-year low of $16.7 billion. This is $2 billion less than total short-term foreign claims against the dollar. While U.S. officials rightly insist that foreigners will scarcely call all their claims at once, the fact that U.S. gold reserves could theoretically be wiped out on call is a threat to confidence in the dollar...
...ones, including its longstanding coffee producing and wholesaling business. When Grace Lines slipped into the red two years ago, Peter Grace unsentimentally sold off eight ships and slashed administrative and maintenance costs. Last year the 26-vessel line was back in the black-but Wall Street rumor continues to insist that Grace would sell it, given the right offer...
...current New York production has, like most things of lasting value, elicited mixed reviews initially. Howard Taubman of the Times found the play "funny, weird, stageworthy and nonsensical.... If you don't insist on a full measure of sense, Mr. Kopit has a fanciful, droll, lurid way with the theatre." In his follow-up Sunday piece Taubman voiced some reservations about the script, such as that it "has its share of irrelevancies that fall into no pattern of communication," but he concluded that Kopit "may become an important playwright...