Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...society, out of the alternation of hope and terror, of promised reward and present punishment, Communist China worked single-mindedly toward Mao's goal-and achieved comparative miracles. In eight years, the cotton harvest was up 30% from its prewar high to 1,600,000 tons. Steel production rose nearly six times above the 1943 peak of 900,000 tons,* although even this spectacular advance brought China's per capita steel production only to 4% of Japan's. With Soviet technical aid, China for the first time started to manufacture trucks and locomotives, tractors and planes...
...were selling for $50 on the black market. A queue began forming on the sidewalk more than an hour before the auction was to begin; not only Parke-Bernet's main gallery, but also three others, equipped with closed-circuit TV, were jammed to overflowing. Everyone from Billy Rose to Paul Mellon, from Perle Mesta to Director James Rorimer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was on hand. No art auction in history had aroused more curiosity...
...bubbling from the lips of a corpse, from the sores of a rotting civilization. The effect is disturbing and profound. In his third feature film Director Philippe de Broca (The Love Game, The Joker) emerges as a narrow but brilliant comic poet, the melancholy master of a strange rose-black hilarity perhaps best described as laughter through screams...
Died. Robert Allen Futterman, 33, steely-minded dynamo of the real estate industry who in seven years of 100-hour work weeks rose from a $300-a-month Manhattan rent collector to the presidency of his own corporation, boasting $100 million assets in 27 cities; from choking on a piece of roast beef; in Manhattan...
...idea. They agreed last week to set up an intergovernmental committee to study the alternatives. As never before, economic realities now lend powerful support to demands for a Channel link. Cross-Channel transport of cars, which had been expected to rise by 30% in the past three years, actually rose 54%; where there were 5,750,000 cross-Channel passengers in 1957, current estimates are that there will be 11,400,000 in 1965. To handle this mounting load by present means, Britain alone would have to spend $56 million for new ferries, ports, planes and airfields in the next...