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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lined. But for all its air of defiant normalcy. West Berlin last week breathed suspicion and uncertainty. Dismayed at the Kennedy Administration's hints of concessions over Berlin, its leaders warned gravely that the people's nerves were wearing tissue-thin. Trumpeted Bild-Zeitung's front page: is GERMANY NOW BEING SOLD OUT? Declared one high official: "Things that were not considered possible before are now becoming possible. This is leading to a crisis of confidence...
...bluntly: "If you are not very careful, there will be no grandeur. We are a small country, we have been plundered, and our economic base has been largely destroyed. France may become a backwater of Europe." Grumbled De Gaulle: "Well, what do you propose?" In an incisive, seven-page memorandum, Monnet suggested rebuilding France's economy under the guidance of a central committee made up of representatives of labor and management and every French political party. The plan was put into effect in 1947, with Monnet as its chief until 1952; it has since grown into a permanent agency...
Some of the biggest U.S. dailies still carry mastheads whose fusty design and pompous preachments seem unchanged since reporters wore celluloid collars. The Baltimore Sun's front page has advocated LIGHT FOR ALL since 1840, 41 years before the city was electrified. Along with the Hearst emblem, an eagle roosting on a starred shield, the San Francisco Examiner clings loyally to the pet name-THE MONARCH OF THE DAILIES-bestowed on it by the Chief 74 years...
...Founder-Gambler Frederick Bonfils' hand-me-down maxims, including a standing head that ran over every police story: CRIME NEVER PAYS. One of the most enigmatic samples of U.S. newspaper wisdom comes from Mark 4:28 and runs above the Christian Science Monitor's lucid editorial page. It was adopted at the behest of Founder Mary Baker Eddy, who prescribed the original quote from the King James Version of the Bible: "First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear." Staving off endless wisecracks, a resourceful editor substituted the verse as it appears...
...Francisco-deserves "a special place in the history of musical mayhem." But in matters artistic, Gump's has established itself as a place where people not sure of their own judgment may buy confidently. Bargains are not the house specialty, but not everything is expensive: on the same page in the Gump catalogue, a gold-finished compact with a jade medallion is listed for $13.75 and a jade and diamond ring...