Word: maker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kouandété, 30, is becoming quite a President-maker-and unmaker. He masterminded the 1967 coup against General Christophe Soglo, who had himself overthrown three previous Presidents. Kouandété replaced Soglo with Zinsou, who struggled to overcome Dahomey's budget deficit of $3,000,000 by cutting government salaries and freezing wages. He succeeded only in setting off a series of strikes. His undoing came when word leaked out that he planned to cut the army's size and replace Kouandété. Despite the drawbacks of the job, the candidates are already...
...puts. Today's engines are V-4s and straight 6s, pounding out 155 h.p. And there are as many as three of the monsters on each craft. Outboard Marine readily admits to spending 1 % of its gross outboard sales on its racing team, and rumors are that Kiekhaefer, maker of Mercury engines, invests as much as $3,000,000 a year pn dozens of races at California's Tahoe, Elsinore and Parker...
...have never been a good wish- maker. I thought a few minutes and apologized for the delay. She smiled sympathetically and suggested a few popular wishes. I finally spat out some noble, selfless thought. She complimented me on my wish. I relaxed. The serious palm-reading commenced...
...Contrariwise, students might also make movies about people they dislike. These would be propaganda movies, and would help the film maker to experience the value of propaganda. It is of course essential that genuine dislike exist toward the subject...
...eyes seem illuminated from inside by some unquenchable zeal. No one knows whether Tristana will indeed be his finale or whether Luis Buñuel is trying to propitiate fate by loudly leaving art before reality quietly leaves him. If there is any certainty about the enigmatic old film maker, it was recently voiced by New Wave Director Louis Malle: "Buñuel will die with the director's light meter dangling round his neck...