Word: rebuilders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Euzennat and Salviat had won the support of Malraux. Unmoved, Marseille's mayor, Gaston Defferre, claimed that the city would lose 2,000 jobs and millions of dollars if construction stopped. He offered to rebuild the walls elsewhere, but the scientists balked. "If you transfer these walls, you destroy them...
That estimate was reasonably accurate, even though some Arab leaders seemed somewhat inclined to begin facing the consequences of defeat. Led by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, the rich oil-producing states agreed to put up $392 million to rebuild Egypt and Jordan-on condition that they be allowed to resume oil shipments to the West. But instead of pursuing destructive schemes for all-out rearmament against Israel, the summit dwelt on more sober thoughts. Nasser himself set the tone...
...small, occasional pieces such as Prince, but also a fullscale, splashy setting of Novelist Graham Greene's spy fantasy, Our Man in Havana. Finding the proper operatic text is a huge problem. "I need something I can destroy," Williamson says, "a play that I can take apart and rebuild my own way. Verdi got this kind of thing from the trashy plays of his fellow romantics, adapted by saintly and compliant librettists. It's not so easy any more." Probably for this reason, the libretto for The Happy Prince is his own. And probably all the better because...
...savings spurt began late last year, after banks and savings and loan associations raised the interest rates to com pete with the soaring rates offered by the bond market. Recently, consumers have been especially anxious to rebuild accounts shrunken during 1966 in anticipation of a tax increase and out of economy jitters. "The consumer and his family have been expecting the worst," says Chase Manhattan Bank Vice President John Deaver. "It takes them a while to get used to the idea that things are getting better...
...bank holiday, a Chicago banker and businessman who in March 1933 took charge of screening 17,000 banks shut down by presidential order, within a week reopened 12,000 of them, eventually either closed or merged 5,000 others, meanwhile organizing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to rebuild public confidence in the nation's banking system; of arteriosclerosis; in Chicago...