Word: ne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever having lived in Vermont.* The U.S. Treasury also claims that it knows nothing of this vast estate, now worth $512 million, which it is supposed to be holding in trust for the rightful heirs. Such professions of ignorance do not deceive Princess Hélène Favraud Ayoubi, 45, widow of a self-styled Iraqi emir and president of the World Union of Mallet Heirs, which is dedicated to recovering the legacy. Nor was she overly fazed last week when the French government indicted her for swindling 22,000 members of the Mallet union...
...indemnities paid by the Egyptians for the canal. Recently, Suez has gone in for more direct participation in manufacturing, and the tie-up with Pont-à-Mousson is the latest result. Should the two companies go on to a full merger, they are likely to replace Rhône-Poulenc, the textile and chemical giant, as France's biggest financial-industrial combine...
...where it hurts. Whispering Glades, the super cemetery for people, and The Happy Hunting Ground, its animal counterpart, are classics. Candy-lovers will recognize Terry Southern's hand immediately. Jonathan Winters is great as The Blessed Reverend Glenworthy and his poor brother Harry, cemetery keepers both; he's the ne-ne-na-na-no-nu baby Frickett grown...
...Ne Win admitted that "willy-nilly" nationalization had not worked out well. "It was like having caught hold of a tiger's tail," he said, "but there was nothing else to do but hang on to it." After all, he pointed out, Red China, Russia and the U.S. have occasional economic troubles; it is his proud boast that Burma borrows the best from both Communism and capitalism while keeping isolated and independent of each. Maybe, suggested some in the seminar, Brigadier General Tin Pe, until recently head of the people's stores and the most Marxist officer...
Whereupon, in the best socialist tradition, Ne Win enjoined his colleagues to keep looking for collective solutions...