Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...List. The officers who seized power in the name of King Constantine shared one uniting passion: an almost puritanical desire to reform and cleanse Greek politics and society. One of the first orders was not the execution of saboteurs or the establishment of a five-year plan; it was a Cromwellian decree that girls must stop wearing miniskirts, that boys must get short haircuts and that all young people should regularly attend church. Colonel Papadopoulos compared the take-over to a surgeon's treatment of a patient. "If the patient is not strapped to the table," he said...
...ailing to hold down the jobs. Also, the new regime's program remained nothing more than a jumble of such catch phrases as "No more party bickering" and "No country progressed by changing Premiers every day." The question was whether the military could bring about reform without becoming so repressive that Greece would be plunged into a lasting, full-scale dictatorship...
...caused traffic jams at drive-in theaters and earned $2,000,000. Similarly, A.I.P. has made quick killings on bargain-basement Biblicals (Goliath and the Barbarians, Goliath and the Sins of Babylon), on way-outer spaces (Angry Red Planet, Battle Beyond the Sun) and teen-age topicals (Dragstrip Riot, Reform School Girl...
...plan would be a mere device to help Britain and the U.S. dodge the consequences of their persistent balance-of-payments deficits. Two weeks ago at Munich, to the consternation of U.S. officials, the French swung the other Common Market Finance Ministers to the restrictive Gaullist recipe for monetary reform: larger credit facilities through the IMF. To achieve that, France merely dropped its two-year opposition to devising any contingency plans at all and its generally unpopular demand to study whether the price of gold should be raised. Comparing the Six's action to Britain's ill-fated...
...need for reform in campaign financing is plain enough. Any serious candidate for state or local office these days must mount a television campaign, and that is an extraordinarily expensive undertaking. As a result, personal wealth--or wealthy friends--is more and more becoming a prerequisite for office. The danger that big money can choose the candidates increases yearly...