Word: keys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unlike the 10:03, is low-key at first. Hundreds of theatregoers stream on to the sidewalks of Boylston Street, bleary-eyed and speechless. Soon they stop yawning long enough to engage each other in conversation. A bald, middle-aged man with spaghetti sauce stains on his wrinkled white shirt turns to his wife and says, "We spent $7.50 to see this thing, so we're going back inside, and we're going to stay until someone rapes the redhead...
...hardly mattered that Wallace had yet to put forth a platform-or even hint at his vice-presidential running mate. A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, the former Governor and Senator from Kentucky, was about to be anointed last week, but his relatively moderate record on race proved too much for key Wallace men. A press conference to announce the choice was put off, and Wallace said he would decide on a Veep "when the spirit moves me." Chandler, now 70, was undismayed. "I wouldn't change my position if I could," he said...
...laid down a set of conditions to ensure that, this time, the eyes would not have it over the ears. He insisted that the scene be Manhattan's Carnegie Hall rather than a TV studio. He reserved the power to veto any sponsor that he considered out of key ("No spaghetti"); CBS obliged, signed General Telephone & Electronics Corp. Although Horowitz accepted the ground rule that no piece should last longer than ten minutes, he stuck by his determination "not to play down to the public, but not to be too esoteric either." His program is a shrewd sampling...
...upward revaluation of the strong West German deutschmark (a move that was drawing money out of London), the pound had sunk to within a whisker of its post-devaluation low of $2.38¼ in foreign exchange centers. Harold Lever, financial secretary to the British Treasury and a key figure in selling the scheme abroad, noted: "If the agreement had not been achieved, there would have been a real danger of sudden and uncoordinated disintegration of the sterling area and a tremendous smashup of the international monetary system, including the dollar...
...Cuban, now living in an old soldiers' home outside Havana, have all the rough charm of folk art. Such praise is not patronizing. Behind Montejo's colorful directness is a robust self-consciousness and dignity that should be the envy of his more sophisticated readers. The key to Montejo's attitude toward the ups and downs of his life is his phrase, "This is not sad because it is true...