Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What worries Willy even more is the flood of refugees who pour daily into West Berlin, most of them ultimately to be flown out to the "mainland" of West Germany. Since the majority of the refugees are young, their flight is turning East Germany into a nation of oldsters; it is also creating a labor shortage in East Germany. Since 1949 more than 2,000,000 people have fled East Germany-more than three times the natural population increase. Says Willy Brandt: "When East Germans ask me what to do ... I tell them to stay as long as they...
Italians agree that Enrico Mattei is some go-getter. A policeman's son, slim, faultlessly tailored Financier Mattei in 14 years has built the state-owned ENI oil and gas monopoly from a stagnant relic of fascism into the nation's most powerful business enterprise, a sprawling empire that also makes soap and margarine and manufactures iron and steel. But Mattei has many enemies who dislike his contempt for private enterprise, resent his roughshod methods, and fear the considerable political power he wields as ENI's boss...
...still a poor, nonindustrial, coffee-based country after World War II. Now Brazil has a spreading highway net, modernized railroads, more than $1 billion worth of new power dams, improved port facilities, even a $100 million new capital in the interior-Brasilia-that focuses the nation's eyes on the untapped west. Along with this public investment, a private industrial giant has grown up at the lively pace of the sambas that are played in some factories to keep production hopping. Samples...
...stand these creeps." says Jan. "Those are not creeps, my dear," says one of the creeps, "they are contacts with the heartbeats of a nation in decay." Among the heartbeatniks: Bummy Car-well (Larry Hagman), incipient novelist ("I'm a writer-I'm out there on the periphery handling unexploited materials"); Danny (Thomas Aldredge), a marijuana-fueled poet who mumbles about the "crypto-neo-reactionaries"; and Yogi (Del Close), a stubble-bearded anti-homosexual crusader who gets most of the show's laughs...
...public education is at stake, that the future of thousands upon thousands of wonderful young people depends on respect for the law. I hold a fundamental conviction that the South will intelligently and ably face, not to the illusory past, but to the high promise of our nation's future...