Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Touré, in desperation, chose the path of many impoverished young nations. Assured of a $35 million credit from Russia, he cut Guinea's ties with the French franc, announced Guinea henceforth would have its own currency which, by terms of his own decree, has no value in foreign trade. Dismayed, Shell, Texaco and Socony Mobil were mulling over whether it was worth it to stay. At the big Fria Alumina Works (48.5% owned by the U.S.'s Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp.), 300 European workers went on strike, halting production, seeking some guarantee that their paychecks...
...Raise Oranges." After half an hour of jostling conversation with the Olympians, the Nixons slipped away and walked down an icy path to Squaw Valley's reception center, where a welcome party for them was already blazing up. In front of a huge open fire, Pat paused long enough to take off her coat (with lapels solidly festooned with Olympic buttons pinned on by the eager young athletes) and fur-trimmed galoshes (borrowed for the occasion from her teen-age daughter). Then she headed resolutely for the reception line. A Swedish official in a white sweater kissed her hand...
Since he left the Martha Graham company 14 years ago, Merce Cunningham has pursued a labyrinthine path extravagantly admired by his followers but often bewilderingly obscure to uninitiated spectators. In Cunningham's world, disembodied arms may project from behind curtains to serve as coat racks, the dancers may suddenly suspend all motion to stand fiercely washing their hands, the hero, dressed in a multi-colored coat, may roll about grunting like a pig or baying like a hound...
...Bridal Path. In a kilt-edged romp, Bill (Wee Geordie) Travers is back in the heather highlands, rolling his rs downhill toward laughing low-roaders in the audience...
...Bridal Path. This bucolic bit of Scottish dialogue has to be heard to be misunderstood, but Bill Travers' romp through the heather is a high jink an' diddle...