Word: owings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are certain personalities in this world who are blessed with a special knack for shedding the prosaic and attracting to their lives the romantic and the curious. Perhaps these people owe more to fate than to talent, but they exist nonetheless. And, if there are such people, there are also such buildings. Some have had to put up with centutries of mediocrity while others have been graced with consistently interesting, and often histrionic, tenants. Cambridge's Warren House belongs to this illustrious category...
...China recognition: "It seems to us that millions should have the opportunity of being Chinese without having to feel that they owe allegiance to the Communist regime...
DeGaulle has always proposed as a remedy the establishment of a strong state, which will make the government of France possible in spite of party conflicts and intra-party splits but which will nevertheless continue to owe its authority to popular consent...
...West Germans still owe $77 million on last year's bill, which the U.S. agreed not to dun them for before the German elections. The elections have come and gone, but the money is yet to be seen. As Britain and France have cut their NATO manpower, and West Germany has at last begun to contribute its own troops to the alliance, Bonn has stiffened its attitude -on support costs, which many Germans choose to call "occupation costs." Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, an open foe of support payments, has even implied that if his government does agree...
Actually, the U.S. Government has no thought of boosting the price. Reason: it would probably do more harm than good abroad. Canada, South Africa and Russia, which has a huge stockpile, would be helped. But for dozens of other nations, which owe the U.S. money, it would only mean further depletion of their already skimpy foreign reserves...