Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle stands taller). Italy's 1.5 million Communists have gradually increased their share of the vote until it stands at 25%. Many such Communist votes amount to a ritualistic protest by citizens who simply oppose the existing order. Yet through sheer numbers, the national parties today exercise a potent veto power on Moscow's line...
...least partly belying Belli, many judges are still loath to stack all the odds against manufacturers, and the doctrine of strict liability is unlikely to be applied universally to all products. Even so, it is easily the most spectacular development in modern tort law-the most potent new weapon aimed at making business safeguard consumers...
...clever for its own good. Based on Ann Jellicoe's giddy, free-spirited play-still bouncing along off-Broadway-The Knack tells of a provincial lass (Rita Tushingham) at large in London who stumbles into a house occupied by three oddball bachelors. One is a potent pipsqueak (Ray Brooks), mysteriously endowed with the knack of "making it" with the opposite sex. One is a pallid, reticent schoolteacher (Michael Crawford), for whom the way of a Mod with a maid remains ever beyond reach. The third (Donal Donnelly) is a simple eccentric who spends his energy painting the walls...
...Welshman Peter George, 41, who co-authored the Strangelove script and wrote the novel, Red Alert, on which it was based. In Commander-1, he uses the familiar formula-headline-fresh immediacy wrapped around a minute kernel of plausibility. Red China, newly armed with a few primitive but potent nuclear bombs, decides to eliminate both Russia and the U.S. by convincing each that the other has launched an all-out war. The Chinese smuggle bombs into New York, Moscow and other points, where they are detonated by radio signals from Peking. But when the smoke clears, China is in ruins...
Prewar Symbol. Whether he would have anyone to run against was unexpectedly thrown in doubt last week. Suddenly dashed were the hopes of Socialist Candidate Gaston Defferre, who had boldly tried to forge a federation of the socialist left and Catholic center parties, thus building a potent opposition to the Gaullists out of the splintered factions that still plague French politics (TIME, June 18). After a week of bitter negotiations, representatives of the center and left parties found themselves hopelessly at odds over all the old divisions that rent the Fourth Republic: state aid to schools, nationalization, relations with...