Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main speaker at the annual Explorers Club dinner in Manhattan was to have been that intrepid adventurer Bobby Kennedy, 39. At the last moment, though, New York's junior Senator was detained in Washington-and perhaps it was just as well. When the Explorers were treated to a five-minute color film showing Bobby's conquest of Mount Kennedy, they burst into jeering laughter at every glimpse of the Senator. Said Manhattan Lawyer Richard Steel, a director of the Explorers Club: "When you see Bobby being carried 8,000 ft. up the mountain by helicopter, then being carried...
...doors of the blue bus hissed open and 120 members of the Leningrad-Kirov Ballet filed into the waiting room at Paris' Le Bourget Airport. Once they were inside, one of the troupe's two "bodyguards" grimly stationed himself at the main exit. As he did, a young, sullen-faced dancer in an ill-fitting grey suit drifted away from the group. Then, suddenly hurrying his pace, he disappeared into the swarm of travelers. The second bodyguard gave chase, frantically pawed his way through the crowd until he found the dancer hiding behind a pillar...
...year-old baker in the University of California hospital in San Francisco was dying of a tumor at the base of his brain. The swelling growth was pressing on the basilar artery, one of the brain's major blood suppliers, and eight of the main nerves in his skull were being compressed into uselessness. The patient's speech was garbled and slurred, he regurgitated much of the little he could eat, he had double vision, part of the right side of his body was paralyzed, and he suffered from fits of uncontrollable, inappropriate laughter...
...even think of improving lean Anouilh's Becket, whose Broadway production starred Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn, strikes theatrical circles as outrageous hubris, but it failed to faze Anhalt. "The main problem was to stop it from being a play," he explains, "to stop it from being theatrical, and to make it real. Becket on the stage was a series of stylized tapestries. Anouilh had to refer to things that happened offstage, the excommunication scene, or the scene in which Becket is accused by the King's prosecutor, for instance. I had to make the two men into...
French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has also called for the Group of Ten to create its own money, but he wants to use it only as a minor supplement to gold. France's main aim is to upgrade the importance of gold, of which it has plenty, and downgrade the dollar and the pound. The Common Market is talking about printing a six-nation money, and its economic chief, Robert Marjolin, figures that such a move could later open the way for a Group of Ten money. The U.S. opposes the idea...