Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shambles Ahead. It is also inviting a head-on collision with King Richard, who has maintained an iron rule over Illinois Democrats for the past 14 years. When the crash comes, says Stevenson, "there'll be a shambles." He adds, "But what have we got to lose?" After all, he points out, in November Daley was unable to carry Illinois for Humphrey. The mayor's choice for Governor, Sam Shapiro, was defeated, as were several other Democratic candidates...
...important, the East German move touched on the very status of West Berlin. West Germany has always maintained that West Berlin is a part of the Federal Republic, though, of course, under special Allied control. As symbolic support for that claim, the Bonn regime has three times in the past 15 years convened the Federal Assembly in West Berlin to select a President. Next month German legislators will meet again in the former German capital to choose a successor to retiring West German President Heinrich Liibke. Until now, East Germany has maintained that West Berlin was "a separate political entity...
...memories of the "Ballets Roses" organized during the late '50s by Andre Le Troquer, at the time President of the National Assembly. Le Troquer made a habit of wrapping nubile young girls in antique carpets and delivering the bundles to aging revelers. But that was a long time past. The choicest scandal is always the present scandal, and in Parisian salons there was a delicious feeling that the "serious mutual insult" cited in the Delon divorce might well spread through several more households-and government bureaus-before the end of "L'affaire Markovic...
...past two years, the only cohesive and controlling force in a China disrupted by Chairman Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has been the army. If it has not always exercised its power in a way that has pleased the leadership in Peking, the rea son is not hard to find: most of the sol diers in the People's Liberation Army are of peasant stock, and it is the peas ants who have been especially recalcitrant in the face of Peking's rule -even before the Cultural Revolution was ever launched. While the revolution...
...blanket." As Hamilton figures it, the Duke of St. Albans, the Duke of Grafton, the Duke of Richmond and the Duke of Buccleuch are descended from Charles II's twelve bastard children. There was some grumbling that Hamilton was being unfair to illegitimate children of the past. Responded the M.P.: "I am objecting to illegitimate children having the right, by virtue of being illegitimate, of going into the Lords...