Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last count, there were 72 princes and princesses of Liechtenstein, which is eleven more highnesses than there are square miles in the minuscule principality. Luckily for the postal system, only a dozen Von und zu Liechtensteins actually live in Liechtenstein. Indeed, it was not until 1937 that a hereditary ruler actually made his home in the drafty, 13th century family fortress, whose battlements rise starkly above the capital of Vaduz (pronounced Vah-dootz). There last week, amid eulogies and thunderous renditions of Heil Liechtenstein, Franz Josef II Maria Aloys Alfred Karl Johannes Heinrich Michael Georg Ignatius Benediktus Gerhardus Majella...
...plastic buttons they received as souvenirs. Said one diplomat: "It was almost a demonstration." The regime fears such scarcely concealed anti-Communist feelings, recently cracked down (like Moscow) on its creative artists. Even circus clowns were warned to make their acts more ideological. At the same time, Communist Ruler Todor Zhivkov allowed U.S. Ambassador Eugenie Anderson to give a Fourth of July speech on television; Bulgarian diplomats now accept dinner invitations from embassy personnel. After years of stalling the U.S., Sofia finally agreed to a settlement involving more than $3,500,000 in conflicting commercial claims. Reason: Bulgaria badly wants...
...they do with bowl and griddle, know their customers' tastes and habits with awe some accuracy. One chain has so automated pancake production that cooks set meters which measure out the precise amount of batter required for cakes of different diameters. The head cook periodically whips out a ruler, checks that the cakes are the right size. Explained one chain executive: "Why, if our 41-inch cakes were five inches across instead, we'd lose $1,000 a month in profits...
...both are also realists, motivated by different national interests, different economies, and different histories. Khrushchev, the ruler of a nation that has at last begun to gain some material rewards, argues that people are not interested in war or revolution but in peaceful prosperity, and that rocket-rattling will only drive millions away from Communism. Mao, ruler of a country with a lot less to lose, master of a peasantry whose appetites demand a bowl of rice, not a TV set or a car, replies in effect that he is not running a popularity contest with the West. Power cannot...
...meeting with Ike at Camp David, he was barely on speaking terms with his hosts. The airport was decorated with huge posters of Stalin; on the way to town, Khrushchev and Mao began an argument that lasted for the next four days. When the Soviet ruler left, not even the niceties of a formal communique were observed...