Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MITCHEL D. ROSE...
...scene in the Great Kremlin Palace amounted to an anticlimax before the show had even begun. On the rostrum before 1,517 obedient delegates to the Supreme Soviet, Russia's puppet parliament, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin huddled and chatted with studied amiability. Then Brezhnev rose and nominated Kosygin for another term...
...freeze, Wilson attached the measure as a rider to an earlier bill that had already been debated in Commons. The effect was to bar debate there on the substance of Wilson's measure-which of course brought an angry outcry from the opposition Tories. Conservative Leader Ted Heath rose in the House to remind Wilson that, during last year's election campaign, the Prime Minister himself had described a wage freeze as "monstrously unfair" and "repugnant to all parties in this country." When the debate issue was put to a vote, Wilson won-though with a sharply reduced...
...Castello Branco upped tax collections, chopped subsidies, tightened credit, slowed down the currency printing presses. For all his efforts, living costs under his regime have soared no less than 117%, and he himself has had to double the official minimum wage level. Last week bus fares in Rio rose 40%, and hordes of favela dwellers began getting up hours early to walk to work. Since Castello Branco took over, the price of meat has gone up from 400 cruzeiros per kilo to 1,900, black beans from 180 to 950, rice from 100 to 560. Hardest to take...
When Aiken finished, he shook hands with Rendell as the crowd cheered for some time. Aiken rose again to acknowledge the applause and quipped, "Maybe I should be running for the Senate...