Word: marlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Silent Fuming. Martin said much more - notably, that there are major differences as well as similarities be tween the economies of 1929 and 1965 - but the rest was all but ignored in the furor that followed. The stock mar ket, uncertain and sliding for several weeks, plunged sharply: the Dow Jones industrial average fell 19 points in the three days after Martin's speech, dipped briefly below the psychologically im portant 900 mark, then closed the week at 900.87. Congressional leaders called for an investigation of the state of free-world economies. Lyndon Johnson at first fumed silently...
...fixed and revered as the changing of the guard, the Bank of England's 18 di rectors meet behind its Corinthian col umns and mahogany doors to plot their strategy for protecting the pound. In measured tones, they debate how much money to borrow in the domestic mar ket, whether to buy or sell sterling in foreign markets and - most important -whether to change the bank's interest rate. After each meeting the chief liai son man, Peter Daniell, dons his top hat, starts on a 21-minute walk across Bartholomew Lane in London's City. Precisely...
...Colombia's northeast, where they have back-to-back liaison with Venezuelan terrorists across the border, Communist bands have been shooting, looting, and haranguing the terrified populace to join in a people's revolt. In the southwest, Colombia's notorious Bandit-turned-Castroite Pedro Antonio Marín, 34, alias Sure Shot, leads some 160 guerrillas, who killed 17 people-including two nuns-in a recent raid; and is the main suspect in the kidnaping of a leading industrialist, whose body was found last week in the mountains...
...Commission dismissed objections that the project would mar the beauty of the Hudson Valley, stating that it would have minimal effect on scenic values in the area...
...girls, including the three for whom the search was started. They were prisoners in what Mexican newspapers called "a concentration camp for white slaves," complete with tiny cells and grisly torture devices. In the house, police arrested two notorious white slavers, Delfina González Valenzuela, 55, her sister María de Jesús, 40, and a handful of their helpers. A few weeks later police picked up a third sister, Eva. Further search at the ranch and at two brothels owned by the sisters uncovered the remains of 17 young women and five babies...