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Word: reines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voted sanctions, the extremists, led by Trujillo's onetime secret police chief, John Abbes García, gained the ascendancy. Abbes, a combination court assassin and court jester who knows how to fawn on Trujillo's ego, took the bit in his teeth as Trujillo gave him rein. Powerful Radio Caribe, an ostensibly private radio station actually run by Abbes' henchmen, began attacking the Balaguer regime for being weak-kneed against the OAS. With the afternoon newspaper La Nación, also linked to Abbes, it "demanded" that Trujillo take over the presidency and that Balaguer step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Maneuvering to Stay | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

Some of the U.S. firms that have been doing research longest realize the importance of basic research, give their scientists considerable free rein to explore new fields. The Martin Co.'s Research Institute for Advanced Studies, on an old estate in Baltimore, allows some 100 scientists to roam about freely on the frontiers of advanced mathematics, solid-state physics and gravity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Prometheus Unbound | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...become the nation's biggest. With an eye that saw red when red figures appeared in the ledgers and could find only blue skies in black balances, Howard had kept Scripps-Howard financially strong. It was managerial shrewdness that also made him continue a policy of giving free rein to experienced and able editors, like the Cleveland Press's Louis Seltzer, who have made distantly owned papers conscientious and sometimes contentious members of their communities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Press Lord Retires | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

...when Fairchild himself stepped in to run the company, "to the consternation of a good many people." But Fairchild brought in hard-driving President John Carter, 40 (with the lure of an option deal that could net him, at current prices, about $8,000,000), now gives him free rein. The company meets Fairchild's definition of growth-25% a year-will gross $80 million this year, earned about $1.60 in the first half compared to 79? in the same period last year. Carter is outspokenly independent about Fairchild's role: "He used to make all sorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: The Yankee Tinkerers | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

Director Wilder handles his players superbly. He holds an amazingly tight rein on Actress MacLaine, which gives her performance a solidity she seldom achieves. Yet it is Actor Lemmon, surely the most sensitive and tasteful young comedian now at work in Hollywood, who really cuts the mustard and carries the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 6, 1960 | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

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