Word: richness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France, too, is tolerant of misbehavior by its leaders, but they must take place within the proper social milieu. During the recent French election, Presidential Candidate Georges Pompidou had to combat rumors that his lively wife had taken part in several wild parties tossed by the rich-hip pie jet setters of Saint-Tropez. Whether or not the charges were true, many Frenchmen were displeased, partly because Madame Pompidou had consorted with people who were not her kind - a social rather than a moral misstep. In Japan, where women are emerging from second-class citizenship, politicians are accustomed to entertaining...
...Crown confiscated the rich lands of the rebels and brought in a flood of Scotch and English settlers in the famous "plantation of Ulster" in 1608. The seaport of Derry was handed over to the city of London and renamed Londonderry. Yet 30 years later the Ulster Irish were still strong enough to launch another uprising, under Owen Roe O'Neill. It grew so serious that it finally required the fire-and-sword scourging of Ireland by Oliver Cromwell...
...Drysdale's "greasy kid stuff" commercial,* which still regularly appears on television. His boyish visage and brash charm also won him spots on The Rifleman and the Donna Reed Show, and he once sang with Milton Berle in a Las Vegas nightclub. He also owns a rich stable of race horses, two of which he keeps on his Hidden Hills ranch in the San Fernando Valley. That enterprise helped make him one of the richest ballplayers in the game. In fact, by 1966 he was in so comfortable a financial position that he and Koufax were able to hold...
...Carew. In the second game, the Twins chased the Tigers' other star, Denny McLain (15-5), off the mound in the fifth inning; two home runs, including Third Baseman Harmon Killebrew's 30th of the season, blasted the way to an 11-5 victory. Last week Pinchhitter Rich Reese cracked a grand-slam homer to lead the Twins to a 5-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles, runaway leaders of the Eastern Division. That blast sent Baltimore Righthander Dave McNally to his first loss since last Sept...
...thing is that Macdonald seems to have been listening. The Goodbye Look is overlong for its specious plot, weighted down with pompous prose about lost opportunities, missed communications, failed lives. As in several Macdonald mysteries, the story itself concerns a troubled youth-in this case, a rich college student who may have committed three murders, but because of head wounds and shock, cannot remember whether...