Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editorial in Red Flag, the party's most authoritative voice. Though the editorial mentioned no names, its meaning was clear. "During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, initiated and led by Chairman Mao," it read, "we have overthrown the top party person in authority taking the capitalist road, smashed the counter-revolutionary line he pursued and shattered his scheme to turn the dictatorship of the proletariat into a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie...
Tapping the Oyster. Having more than tripled its earnings in five years (to $158 million in 1965), Caterpillar slipped slightly last year. As a capital-goods manufacturer susceptible to economic swings, Cat suffered during the recent downturn from lagging construction, tight credit and curtailment of federal road-building projects. By 1970, however, a four-year, $600 million expansion program will be completed to meet an anticipated surge in worldwide construction, and land development. Says Chairman Blackie: "We have adapted our organization in a manner which treats the world as our oyster...
...arrival in Mexico City Langer travelled by taxi to the suburb of Coyoacan. After riding down a respectable road the taxi turned into a deserted, unpaved street, with many rust but no houses. At the end of the street was a villa, protected by walls and heavilyarmed guards. The guards had been notified of Langer's arrival and he was admitted, without too much difficulty, to the simply-furnished villa...
...seasons, was adorned with a dozen - most notably, the anguishingly funny America Hurrah. Even further afield, touring companies - which, according to Variety, drew $32 million in 1965-66 and have never topped $40 million - pulled in $43.6 million this season. That does not count one other extension of the road. London this month is showing no fewer than seven U.S. imports, from Hello Dolly! to The Odd Couple, and Amer ica Hurrah will open there in August...
...Paulette, grieving as she leads her husband's funeral cortege to the cemetery. Comforting her is Peter Sellers, who tries to cut a path through the widow's weeds by promising her the world. At last Paulette succumbs. When the mourners reach a fork in the road, she and Sellers peel off to the left as the scandalized funeral procession proceeds to the right...