Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dodge City." Back in Danang, the courtesies were over. On the fifth day, the rebels gave up most of their checkpoints, pulled down their multicolored Buddhist flags from the tops of oil barrels, and-except for manning a few streets in the vicinity of the pagodas-spread out through the city as snipers. They were everywhere, firing at anything, and being answered fatally by the heavy firepower of Ky's troops. "Dodge City," grunted a Vietnamese marine. When one grenade-throwing rebel was captured, the loyalist officer in charge of the patrol wasted no words; he whipped...
...Etruscan, after those sturdy people who flourished in his native Tuscany before the grandeur of Rome. His figures wear an antique patina. His bronzes are left pitted by their plaster casts or are particolored from carefully ladled-on corrosive dyes; his wooden statuary is daubed with earthy tints, oil paints clinging to the surfaces as in flaking frescoes. Even his lush-thighed Pomonas, named for the ancient Italian goddess of fruit trees, seem like the petrified victims of the last days of Pompeii. But as currently displayed in Rome's 500-year-old Palazzo Venezia, at one time...
...American International Oil Co., a subsidiary of Amoco, has signed an agreement to build and manage jointly with the Indian government a $65 million plant in Madras with a capacity of 200,000 tons of nitrogenous fertilizer annually...
...International Utilities, a U.S. holding company whose subsidiaries supply gas and electricity in Canada, brought out a $12 million issue. A subsidiary of Manhattan's Bankers' Trust Co., the eighth largest U.S. commercial bank, turned to the Eurodollar market for $20 million. Within the next few weeks, oil-producing Cities Service Co. expects to float a $20 million issue and drugmaking Chas. Pfizer & Co. a $15 or $20 million...
Unthinkable Terms. Even so, one irate stockholder has sued Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) for paying an "excessive" 5¾% rate abroad, arguing that the company should have ignored the voluntary restraint program because it lacks the force of law. Many foreign governments and European companies have been squeezed out in the borrowing crunch or have agreed to hitherto unthinkable terms. "This," says London investment banker Siegmund Warburg, "has stirred up considerable anti-American feeling." Despite such acrimony, more foreigners each year seem happy to hold their wealth in U.S. money...