Word: minis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggest or guess who the choice should or will be. One letter wryly suggested that our 1967 choice should add a chapter to last year's and celebrate People Married 25 Years. The run of facetious and semi-facetious suggestions has included Girls Who Look Good in Mini skirts, The Beatles' Guru, the Sands Hotel Vice President Who Slugged Frank Sinatra, and Sgt. Pepper. While most of the proposals have been of a more serious nature, it is remarkable that this year, while we have received a heavy flow of suggestions, no individual or idea is clearly favored...
...power of the Greek Establishment. Under the new constitution, the monarch will no longer have power to appoint and dismiss Premiers or to promote and assign generals. He will, in fact, have none of the power that made it possible for the Greek throne to create its own mini-aristocracy of loyal retainers...
...Mini-Recession...
...business lagged during the first half of the year, and hindsight bestowed the label of mini-recession. For the first time since 1961, the economy missed its clockwork quarterly advance. During the first three months of the year, the nation's real output of goods and services declined. Statistically, the setback was minuscule (0.06%) and much too brief to qualify as a meaningful interruption in the long expansion. Having picked up momentum again, the economy passed a notable milestone in November: the 81st month of unbroken prosperity, bettering the war-fueled record set between 1939 and 1945. Over...
...months under Greece's military rulers, led by Colonel George Papadopoulos. He had originally gone along with the coup in hopes that he could exercise a moderating influence on the zealous colonels. But his advice was largely ignored as the junta enacted scores of restrictive laws, banned mini skirts and beatniks' beards, clamped an iron censorship on the press, and sent hundreds of Greeks to prison on such charges as "speaking ill of the authorities" and playing the music of out lawed leftist composers. Constantine waited, hoping for the proper moment to spring a countercoup that would oust...