Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hungry." There is nothing new in Indonesia's prejudice, since the overseas Chinese have been running things there for years. But feeling against the Chinese has risen higher as Indonesia has slid toward the brink of economic ruin. Inflation is out of control; banknotes in circulation have doubled in the past year, and the U.S. dollar, officially pegged at 45 rupiahs, now gets 1,500 rupiahs on the black market. A good sarong costs a worker three months' pay, and one Indonesian airline pilot has complained that he can make ends meet only by smuggling in cameras from...
Died. Harry Sacher, 60, longtime mouthpiece for U.S. Communists, who, in defense of eleven top party members in 1949, so badgered, bullied and bedeviled federal Judge Harold Medina, hoping to ruin the jurist's health and thus gain a mistrial, that after the Reds' conviction Medina sentenced him to six months in jail (which he served, though a similar sentence in 1956 for refusing to tell Congress whether he was a Communist was overturned by the Supreme Court); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Sniffed Sacher to Medina: "If it were necessary in the cause of liberty...
...historical approach to Bogart is possible this spring because the Brattle has programmed thirteen (count 'em) of the master's movies in one-day shots, guaranteed to ruin any carefully planned study schedule. The interested viewer can follow Bogie from his bit roles in George Raft type gangster films through the "classic" private eye series of the 'Forties to the start of his final ("warning" or "mature," depending on your preference) period...
...Third Lover. In this chilling story about a self-centered young man whose envy drives him to ruin the happiness of a couple who befriend him, Claude Chabrol, who launched the French New Wave, proves that with honest camera work and well-motivated plot, films may be excitingly nouvelle without being murkily vague...
...Monday's City Council meeting, several Councilmen spoke out against the building. "It looks like a wartime concrete bunker seven stories high," commented Daniel J. Hayes. Other members joined him in protesting that the construction would ruin the historic flavor of the Brattle Street-Appian Way area...