Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years." The real drama lay in the approaching vote. In the end, 69 opposition Labor members voted with the Conservative government, while 39 Tories switched the other way. By an unexpectedly wide margin of 356 votes to 244, Britain agreed in principle to join the European Economic Community effective Jan. 1, 1973. The decision may not have been quite on a par with the signing of Magna Carta, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, or Waterloo, as some claimed, but it did promise to change the shape and character of Europe-and Europe's role in the world...
...practical terms, the effects of Britain's entry will be felt gradually over a period of five or six years. The rules of membership commit London to lowering its tariffs against other EEC members by 20% as of April 1973, and by a like amount on each subsequent Jan. 1 until 1977, when the tariffs will be abolished. The Continental countries will do the same with their generally lower tariffs against British goods. The result will be to expose Britain's sometimes lackluster businessmen to competition from makers of Italian refrigerators and woolens, West German heavy electrical equipment...
...JAN BODINE...
...already writing poems by the age of eight, although his father, a railroad worker, hated poets and would burn his son's notebooks. Fearing his father's wrath, he first used the pen name Pablo Neruda when he was 15, taking the surname from the Czechoslovak writer Jan Neruda (1834-91). In 1923 his first volume of verse, Crepusculario (Twilight), was published. A year later, he followed with Twenty Love Poems and One Song of Despair, a book that remains his most popular, with more than a million copies sold. It evokes an instinctive materialism based more...
...other artists and the thousands of drawings that lie in bales throughout the rooms of Mougins, Vauvenargues and La Californie), is now worth anything from $50 million to $100 million. The value of his whole estate has been estimated at around $750 million. His income is immense. Between Jan. 5, 1969 and Feb. 2, 1970, he produced 167 oils and 45 drawings, which were shown in the Papal Palace at Avignon the following summer. Since (according...