Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indira has had her own share of troubles since she succeeded the late Lai Bahadur Shastri one year ago. Her attempts to rejuvenate the country's stag nating economy by devaluating the overpriced rupee brought loud screams of protest from most of the nation's politicians. Though she has so far saved India from widespread famine by arranging for special shipments of U.S. grain, many Indian leftists denounced her for relying too heavily on the Americans for help. Her attempts to free the country from crippling state controls have brought charges that she is abandoning the socialism...
...Manufacturers Association-had been about to open. Nearly 1,240 exhibitors, ranging from giants like General Electric and Westinghouse down to minor manufacturers of shower curtains and shish kebabers, had set up exhibits and were prepared to write orders from buyers converging from all parts of the country. Then, late at night, fire suddenly broke out in a booth in the main exhibition hall. Within 15 minutes, McCormick Place was an inferno; because of the intensity of the fire and its rapid spread in all directions, investigators suspected that defective electrical wiring was the cause. Eight hours later, one watchman...
...Late last year, Reyre even tried to take over Columbia Pictures Corp. by buying 37% of its stock in a swift and surprising $40 million raid. The U.S.'s Federal Communications Commission thwarted that move, but Paribas still expects to wind up with two seats on Columbia's board of directors. Last week Reyre reached across yet another border by announcing that Paribas has acquired a share in the West German business bank of S. J. Warburg. "He is very smart, very brave," says admiring Frank Manheim, a partner in Manhattan's Lehman Bros. "And he knows...
...anonymous portrait that the dealer sells by observing that it looks so much like the customer. As for Early American cabinetwork, the author estimates that no less than 80% of what is passed off today as 18th century dry sinks-and chests of drawers is in fact mass-produced, late 19th century "cottage furniture...
...remote enough in time or expensive enough for the fakers to bother with it. He believes that regardless of its age or esthetic quality, an antique is essentially "something out of the past that reminds us of a way of life that was different from our own." Samples of Late Victoriana offer sound opportunities for long-term appreciation. Speculative buyers might also pick up pieces from the 1920s, like clear plastic beds or early plywood furniture. "A hundred years from now," predicts Grotz, "dealers will still be complaining that they can't find any of the good stuff...