Word: majorca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russian arms and terrorist raids. One of Haile Selassie's principal aims in Washington was to ask President Johnson for more U.S. military aid to protect his borders. The Emperor, however, has not survived for 50 years by leaving his bets unhedged. From the U.S., he flew to Majorca for a day's rest, and thence to Moscow, where this week he hopes to talk the Kremlin into restraining further military aid to the aggressive Somalians...
Irrational Behavior. Santa Ana-like phenomena are not confined to Southern California. Similar hot, dry wind sweeping down mountain slopes is called "foehn" (pronounced, approximately, fain) in Austria and Germany, "chinook" along the U.S. and Canadian Rockies, "sky sweeper" on Majorca, "khamsin" in Israel, and "the Canterbury northwester" in New Zealand...
...Lane, the social season is coming to life again, and so is Hearst Society Columnist Suzy Knickerbocker. She has snapped out of her summer doldrums, and once more is writing wittily, tartly and occasionally tenderly about socialites as they close up their chateaux in Biarritz and their villas in Majorca to return to the comforts of London and New York. Suzy knows how to catch them on the run. "Princess Peggy d'Arenberg will be arriving from Paris to dip into the New York social season," she noted. "You all remember Traveling Peggy. If she stays any place...
Their tactics-and policies-were remarkably similar. The C.D.U. and the S.P.D. each distributed 330,000 copies of an election magazine; each featured local geography and history contests, with an identical jackpot prize of a trip to Majorca. Both parties piously agreed to hold campaign expenditures down to $75,000-and both ended up spending some $500,000. Willy Brandt came down from Berlin to campaign for two days. Chancellor Erhard topped him by spending four days there, shaking hands and sipping Saarland milk for photographers. "I view this election," he declared between glasses, "as a vote of confidence...
Director Berlanga, to his immense credit, works exclusively with live ones. His characters are sharply observed, warmly played. When Manfredi is summoned at last to finish off a condemned man on the sunny island of Majorca, he takes his wife along for their honeymoon. The gay holidays end with a jolt in a bleak prison courtyard where uniformed guards are forced to drag the reluctant executioner and his victim to ward the hour of judgment. The comment is strong but disappointingly literal, for Life loses ground as a first-rank satire when it stops kidding its message and starts preaching...