Word: richness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such diligent documentation also characterizes Trageédie's rich farrago of Gaullicisms. De Gaulle may indeed disavow everything in the book, but nearly every acerbic quip and egocentric rumination has the ring of authentic Gaullist hubris. The general emerges as imperious in private as he is in public, but he seems even more petulant and petty. A sampling of his views...
...also impressive. Though Ecuador and Colombia have not gone beyond the planning stage, Venezuela has already opened 275 miles of its portion of the Marginal Highway, and has another 85 miles under way. Paraguay has built a 442-mile link across the Gran Chaco, cutting transportation time from the rich central farming areas to Asuncion from six or eight days to ten hours. Bolivia's President Rene Barrientos has built about one-third of a planned 1,100-mile stretch, renaming one of the small towns along it after Belaunde...
...PUBLIC WORKS. The rich aroma of pork converts even the most ardent budget cutters into big spenders. "Sometimes you have to put that feeling of economy behind you," said Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, pleading for a $400,000 appropriation to start a dam at Decatur Ill. Dirksen got what he wanted, as did the others from both parties who approved the $4.6 billion public-works bill for fiscal 1968. Among its many nonessentials is the Delaware River-Tocks Island park; projected costs for it have grown from $90 million to $198 million. Well over $1 billion in similar public...
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...totaling $30 million should be just the ticket. That sum is what Palm Beach-Long Island Socialite Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, 61, can count on, and it has gone a long way toward making him appear to be the man who has everything. Family? Hard to top a steel-rich Phipps mother and a British father who was a polo-playing first cousin to Winston Churchill. Wife? None other than the patrician blonde "Ceezee," the former Lucy Cochrane of Boston (TIME cover, July 20, 1962), who, at 47, is one of the world's most elegant women. Hobbies? What...