Word: mr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME regrets that, due to a production error, an entire quote from Mr. Gerdes was dropped. He said: "There has got to be some sympathetic attitude by the public toward the problems that we are facing, if it wants to have enough power to keep the air conditioning going...
...observations that followed this remark were TIME'S, not Mr. Gerdes...
...sprang a randy group of political prisoners from jail and got them to sanctuary in another country-on a Brazilian military plane. The abductors' note was signed by two bands-the National Liberation Action Group, a Brazilian anti-government underground outfit, and the October 8 Revolutionary Movement, or MR-8, a Castroite group that takes its name from the date of Che Guevara's 1967 capture in Bolivia. In return for Elbrick's life, the terrorists made two imaginative demands, to which the government hastily agreed. First, Brazilian newspapers, radio and TV stations...
...several years I have disliked the public images of Mr. William F. Buckley Jr. and Mr. Gore Vidal [Aug. 22]. At last, it seems, these men's special gifts and inclinations command a bit of admiration-not for what they are, but rather for how they are being used. Buckley may rid us of Vidal, and Vidal may rid us of Buckley...
...unearthed a few memorable anecdotes in which Shaw appears as the witty Irishman, some of his cracks as old as the Wicklow Hills. Alfred Hitchcock, on meeting Shaw: "One look at you, and I know there's famine in the land." Shaw, replying: "One look at you, Mr. Hitchcock, and I know who caused...