Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italy got the joke, all right, but the returning Amintore was not amused. First he blew his 5-ft. 1-in. top at his wife, and when she tried to escape by closing a door in his face, Fanfani reportedly kicked it in. Only when things were settled at home did he manfully face up to the chortling outside world. "Unjust and unfounded considerations and judgments of a friend and the improvident initiative of a member of my family," he wrote Premier Moro with as much dignity as he could muster, "rightfully or wrongfully have cast doubts on the conduct...
...Loved One fails only when it gets serious and when it tries to throw a big space-age joke in with the rest of them. Taken as a whole, the movie is not the best; it will not run away with awards. But the parts are just fine--perfect for reading and exam periods. The dead man on whose chest Miss Thanatogenos and Mr. Joyboy exchange notes could be your Ec 1 section...
...city council and running a teddy-bear-manufacturing business, Lancashireman Robens won a seat in Parliament, at 40 became Clement Attlee's Minister of Labor. In 1961 a Conservative government asked him to take over the red-inked coal board, which had become a music-hall joke. Robens moved into the board's office behind Buckingham Palace, mounted a housewives' coal-buying campaign, and announced to the workers: "The miner never had a better friend than Alf Robens." He was soon made a baron...
...price of Scotch whisky up to $5.46 a bottle, but the majority of them still supported him -and resented what they considered British treachery at trying to force them to turn over their government to the blacks. "Why are the British like ripe bananas?" goes the latest Salisbury joke. Answer: "Because they are yellow, crooked and ready to turn black...
...make some boycotts impractical or ineffective. Placed under sanctions by Russia, Yugoslavia received aid from the West; Cuba, in the face of U.S. sanctions, got help from the East. Red China has been able to buy from Western nations despite a U.S. embargo. The Israeli-Arab standoff is a joke, since neither has markets to interest the other, and both sides in the cold war trade with each country. Indeed, the only really successful postwar sanction was the 28-day naval blockade that the U.S. threw around Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis. It was totally effective, but it required...