Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amid cries of approval and derision from both sides of the packed House, the Prime Minister rose, nervously shuffled his notes and placed them neatly on the dispatch box in front of him. "It's been twelve years since I last spoke in this House," he began.* In the next few minutes it became all too plain that the cozier, clubbish style of the House of Lords had blunted Douglas-Home's debating thrust, and his supporters missed his usual pungent wit. After a long, meandering preamble, he launched into a lackluster exposition of ambitious government policies...
...specters rose to remind Germans of events that took place a quarter century and more ago, but had still the power to evoke deep emotions...
...mild heart attack; Actor Anthony Perkins, 31, for three days, after he sprained his ankle while chasing through the woods with Brigitte Bardot during the filming of Une Ravissante Idiote near Paris; Ballplayboy Bo Belinsky, 26, for a day, after breaking his nose in two places when his surfboard rose up and clobbered him off Waikiki...
...since the Roaring Twenties, when production per man-hour rose 5.3% yearly, has there been such a sustained rise in the productivity of the U.S. economy. While manufacturing productivity from 1947 to 1962 increased only 2.9% a year on the average, it has jumped more than 4% in each of the past two years. Last week the Department of Commerce reported that the gain will be 4.3% this year. "Most impressive," said Walter Heller, chief economist for the President...
...story lampoons popular rock-and-roller Conrad Birdie, and the inscrutable American middle class. The Radcliffe production stars Nick Littlefield as the hapless agent with a mother on his back and Ciji Ware as Rose Alverez, Littlefield's lovelorn secretary. Both leads sing pleasantly and dance with style. And Miss Ware's "Shriners" number, a torrid sequence with a buffoon male chorus, almost stops the show...