Word: secret
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stories the Feet Have Told Thru Reflexology, Rebirthing in the New Age. Here, in a continual flea-market atmosphere peopled by folks who say "head" when they mean "mind" and "I feel" when they mean "I mean," are posters, pamphlets and sleek brochures promising still other shindigs where the secret of life may be gleaned...
...there any secret? "The secret to happiness is really so simple," says one pamphlet. "You just need to be who you really are; and who you are is whoever you are when you stop doing all the things you do to be someone other than who you are because you're so afraid who you really are may not be all right...
...mayor of Peking at the time of the riots and one of Teng's principal adversaries, has already been sacked and replaced by Lin Hu-chia, a Teng ally. Ch'en Hsi-lien, commander of the Peking military region, and Wang Tung-hsing, head of the secret police, have also come under attack...
Among them were 700 who have been arrested since Nov. 6, when the military took over the country. Contrary to earlier government pledges, the fact finders said, prisoners were still subjected to psychological torture by SAVAK, Iran's secret police (though physical torture had apparently stopped...
...sales. Indeed, the Saudis let few riyals out of the country; they do not want the riyal to become an international currency, lest its value be set by speculators and other money traders. Authorities have kept the formula by which they peg the riyal's value a deep secret. A London bank once set its computers to work trying to calculate the formula, to see whether and how it was related to the Saudis' trading surplus or the fluctuations of the dollar against other currencies, but drew a complete blank...