Word: nears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proclaimed "a revolutionary Libya, a socialist Libya," representatives of the 40-odd foreign oil companies (38 of them American) were assured on two separate occasions that their investments were safe. U.S., British and French diplomats heard promises of friendship and good faith. At the British airbase at El Adem, near Tobruk, and at the huge, $100 million Wheelus airbase, manned by some 3,000 Americans, the commanders tactfully suspended training flights, and the new regime requested that the flights remain suspended "temporarily." In every case, the spokesmen for the new regime were junior officers-lieutenants and captains. Nobody could...
There were no signs of such acts, however, from King Idris and his small retinue. The ailing monarch paid a $24,000 tab at his Turkish spa and moved on to a Greek one at Kammena Vourla, near Thermopylae, where he booked 36 rooms for a 20-day visit. Would he return to Libya? He let it be known through aides that he would, if the regime permitted. If not, he said, rather poignantly, "somewhere in the world there will be a place for me to live...
Final Act. Speer became part of the Nazi inner circle and was invited to join Hitler at his eyrie near Obersalzberg in the Alps above Berchtesgaden. Visits there were a numbing ordeal. Long lunches were followed by short walks to Hitler's Alpine teahouse for tea and cookies. Hitler carefully avoided sweets. "Imagine me with a paunch," he would say. "It would be political suicide." The Führer was prone to fall asleep in the middle of his own monologues...
...weather-beaten, century-old farmhouse overlooking the St. George River near Gushing, Me., is one of the most familiar structures in America. Called "the Olson farm," it stands bleak and solitary above a brown-grass hillside in Andrew Wyeth's acclaimed and much reproduced painting, Christina's World. Now the house belongs to Hollywood Producer Joe Levine (Two Women, Divorce-Italian Style), who owns 13 Wyeths and has just paid $30,000 so that the house can be preserved and restored as a Wyeth museum. The producer and his wife paid a visit to Gushing to sign...
...surgeons think that they got it all, believe no further treatment will be necessary); James F. Byrnes, 90, former Secretary of State, Supreme Court Justice, Democratic Senator, from and Governor of South Carolina, at Baptist Hospital in Columbia, S C., recuperating and off the critical list after a near-fatal heart attack; Ford Motor Co. Vice President Benson Ford, 50, rushed from his office to Henry Ford Hospital by brother Henry II and under observation after a reported "angina attack...