Word: manly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rivalry has already developed, particularly between the bureaucratic elite and a middle class of intellectuals, managers and professionals. Both, in turn, are distrusted by the great surly majority-he mass of peasants and former peasants. At present, says Amalric, the people and the state face each other like "one man with his hands raised above his head while another points a tommy gun at his stomach." Inevitably, he says, the state "will get tired and lower the tommy gun." The result will not really be "liberalization" but anarchy...
Austere old Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar is still unaware that he was replaced 15 months ago while in a deep coma following a stroke-and he may never find out. No one in Portugal has so far been able to summon up the nerve to tell the old man that his 36-year reign is over. The task of preventing Salazar from finding out has fallen chiefly to his housekeeper, Dona Maria de Jesus Caetano Freire, and his physician. They deny him newspapers and television, explaining that such diversions would "tire" him. They schedule meetings with his former Cabinet...
...seaside palace in his black Citröen limousine, soldiers opened fire with automatic weapons, wounding him and killing his two bodyguards. Then they bundled Zinsou into a waiting car and disappeared. Eight hours later, Lieut. Colonel Maurice Kouandété, chief of staff of the 1,500-man army, announced that Zinsou had been removed because he "had not fulfilled his mission of national reconciliation...
...man they Give a Damn, and gave their damnedest. The all-celebrity chorale was assembled to raise funds-and the rafters-for the Urban Coalition with a taped TV commercial featuring the message: "Love-it comes in all colors." With professional help from Mitch Miller, Leontyne Price and the cast of Hair, lung power for the coalition chorus was supplied by Ed Sullivan, Arthur Goldberg, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bunche, Chet Huntley, John D. Rockefeller III, Johnny Carson and nearly 100 other distinguished Americans of every hue and hairstyle. All the group needs now is a title. The Urbanes...
However, salt can also be an agent of disease and death. A single quarter-pound dose might kill a man. Even the healthy person's normal intake of about one-third ounce a day is harmful to patients with certain types of high blood pressure or heart or kidney disease for whom doctors prescribe "salt-free" (actually, low-salt) diets. Some physicians fear that the inclusion of salt in such products as baby foods may lead to an excessive taste for salt and perhaps disease later in life. One manufacturer replies that every baby must have some salt...