Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops that they have illegally infiltrated into Cyprus during the past seven years, leaving only the 950 that they are entitled to station there under the island's 1960 independence accords. They also agreed to disband the 11,000-man Greek Cypriot National Guard, to pay damages to the Turkish Cypriot villagers of Ayios Theodores and Kophinou for the Nov. 15 attack by Greek General George Grivas and his Guards men, and to keep Old Hawk Grivas off the island. For their part, the Turks agreed to withdraw from the island the 1,500 troops in excess...
...billion-compared with less than $1 billion under the Eisenhower Administration in 1960-and one-fifth of the handouts go to farmers who earn more than $10,000. Not only are subsidies a cause of rising food prices, but it makes little sense for the Government to pay farmers to produce less when hunger stalks half the world. A poll of 5,000 farmers by the influential Farm Journal showed that 63% of them favor an end to price supports...
Last week it was finally time to pay the piper. Up for auction at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries went 151 items of Guest's choicest Chinese and Meissen porcelain and signed French 18th century furniture. In three hours of furious bidding, collectors, in what was a resounding tribute to Guest's connoisseur taste, bid a handsome $815,275. It was enough to see the Guests safely out of the woods for the moment. But in the tradition of the rich, they could not have appeared to care less. Even before the sale began, Winston had taken...
...More Habit. As in the days of Goldwyn and Mayer, the studio goal is to make money-but the customers are now willing to pay for a different product. "The main change has been in audience," argues Robert Evans, head of production at Paramount. "Today, people go to see a movie; they no longer go to the movies. We can't depend on habit any more. We have to make 'I've got to see that pictures...
...channel sounds as if it might be an affiliate of the BBC. But it is an independent station and-even more unlikely-a public (or educational) channel based in San Francisco. Commercial stations in town pay it the ultimate compliment of running KQED's better film footage on their news shows. And though there are 149 other public channels in the U.S., KQED this year provided more than half of the programming pooled among them by the Educational Television Service...