Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like most fishermen, the Japanese crewmen aboard the commercial boat Yoku Maru could not resist a bit of a brag. When the 100-ft. vessel put into Jamaica's Montego Bay last fall, the skipper invited some local sport fishermen aboard. Modestly the Japanese apologized that a mother ship had carted away most of their catch. Then they threw open their lockers. There, stacked like cordwood, were the carcasses of thousands upon thousands of game fish: yellowfin tuna, wahoo, sailfish and blue marlin...
...stevedore who had walked out on his family the year before, and ended with a tearful reconciliation and some moralistic repentance by Pop. Insight's producer, Paulist Father Ellwood Kieser, charges that much religious programming is marred by "superficial ideology," "shallow psychology," and-he cannot resist the pun-excessive reliance on the deus ex machina...
...Much to Resist. Such turmoil and tortured fluctuations are the standard bill of fare for copper. Of the major metals, it has long had one of the most unstable world market prices. In 1956 that price hit an alltime high of 45⅞? a pound. By 1958 it had sunk to 24 4/5?. Speculation on copper futures ran amuck, and in desperation producers accounting for 70% of the free world's copper supply informally banded together to provide an artificial stability in the form of a set world price. Still copper's willful ways seemed uncontainable. A year...
...additional demands on the already strained copper supply. The supply is also being threatened by strikes in Chile, the possibility that Rhodesia will cut off neighbor Zambia's supply routes and, as ever, the unsure state of Congo politics. Such a sellers' market was too much to resist for Chile, Zambia and the Congo, all of whose developing economies are largely based on the metal...
...been the ally of the Americans from end to end if not the France of De Gaulle?" What about fears that he was about to destroy the Common Market? "Nothing is more logical today than to create a common European market," said De Gaulle, though he could not resist adding, "on condition, of course, that it is not adorned with unacceptable political conditions." Then he was opposed to European political unity? "From the time I have been French, I have been European," replied De Gaulle. Then suddenly, France was treated to the spectacle of De Gaulle's hopping around...