Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the air, Israeli jets repeatedly pound with rockets, bombs and napalm Arab towns and encampments in Jordan suspected of harboring the fedayeen, the Arab world's "men of sacrifice," who are carrying on a guerrilla war against Israel. Undeterred, the guerrillas cross frequently into Israel to ambush a patrol, plant a mine or leave a plastique explosive in a marketplace. Israeli commandos cross the other way in occasional retaliatory raids against fedayeen bases or positions...
Some bodies, of course, are better off concealed. Designers are unanimous in warning anyone with so much as an extra pound of flesh to stick to the old shirtdress. Steven Brody, one of the innovators of the Cadoro breastplate (see color pages), recalls with disdain an overendowed woman in a see-through blouse: "It was not appetizing. There she was, just bouncing along. Flippety flop." Designer Jon Haggins, himself a slim, trim 165 Ibs., adds that "our customer has to be between 19 and 35, with a firm body, not absolutely flat and not busty either...
...Germany's trading partners, who saw it as a shortsighted and selfish maneuver that threatens their own economies. The French are bound to feel that the Germans are trying to force them into devaluing just after their June 1 presidential elections. The British rightly fear that their fragile pound will come under renewed speculative attack. Britain's foreign debts far exceed its reserves of gold and foreign money, and sterling may be able to cling to its $2.40 rate only if international creditors give the British more time to repay...
After De Gaulle's departure, speculators rushed to buy marks, knocking the franc, the dollar and the pound to the lower limits set by the International Monetary Fund. The prospects of another franc devaluation-the eighth since World War II-caused French bank notes to sell at a 10% discount abroad, and the price of gold in Paris reached record highs. French reserves fell for the twelfth consecutive week, while German Bundesbank reserves jumped by $400 million. Only the strict French currency controls prevented a much sharper shift out of francs and into marks...
Rightest Kind. Fitzgerald-not coincidentally, one of her favorite authors -surely could have written her biography. Born into a middle-class family in Pound Ridge, N.Y., she had most of the right things: "artist parents," an education on scholarship at Rosemary Hall and Wellesley, a job as an editorial assistant to Diana Vreeland on Harper's Bazaar, even marriage to a good-looking Harvard grad. The marriage went nowhere for two years, then ended in a quiet divorce. "He was a nice guy," she says now. "We just had nothing in common. Nothing...