Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drama. Between hard covers it may pass as a Ph.D. thesis; on the open stage it is a cruel test of audience patience. In recent seasons, a firm of legalistic factmongers - Hoch-huth, Weiss and Kipphardt - has invaded the theater. They shuttle between distortion and documentation, rehashing past history and seasoning it generously with the catchup of guilt. Each of these playwrights is a displaced pedant who pretends to be stretching the mind. In actuality, he is merely inviting the audience to have a good...
...minimis time," which is supposed to include all minor interruptions. "Computers read Latin already," quipped Sevareid, who described Kleindienst as "a new Lochinvar" riding a computer instead of a white horse and trying to rescue the Government from inefficiency-a goal that has eluded many others in the past...
...latest of many austerity moves to hold off devaluation, the Bank of France is expected to announce this week another increase in the country's discount rate, which has been raised over the past year from 3½% to 6%. Such belt tightening has already fanned social unrest. Across France last week, normally docile merchants closed down their shops in a one-day protest against high taxes. Some even took to the streets and battled riot police...
...since about 1965, it has repeatedly overreacted to political considerations. It is widely agreed that the board let the money supply shoot up much too fast late in 1965, contract too sharply in mid-1966 and then rise too rapidly in 1967 and 1968. The great rises of the past two years have fueled inflation, which the board is now trying earnestly to stop. Since December, the money supply has not grown at all, and bankers cannot meet the increasing demand for loans. Martin's foes were jubilant when the $42,500-a-year chairman recently confessed...
Aptly Named. Everyone involved was doubly elated, since there were times during the past nine years when it seemed unlikely that the Concorde would ever be built, much less get off the ground. Incessant wrangling between France and Britain about entry into the Common Market threatened an embarrassing end to the project. But through all the bickering, technicians of France's Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation got along famously. For them, at least, the Concorde has more than lived up to its name, producing the kind of amity that De Gaulle seems determined to frustrate. Said Britain...