Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When asked about the room rate increase the Administration says will be necessary with deconversion, Wachter said, "That's what they say. It's not clear to us that that's necessarily so. None of us have seen the figures. The figures are sort of held over our heads...
Seven Roaring Days. This month, Iran will hold a blowout the likes of which few countries have ever seen. For seven roaring days and seven joyous nights, it will celebrate the coronation of the man responsible for it all: Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, 47, Shahanshah (King of Kings), Aryamehr (Light of the Aryans), and absolute ruler of his nation. It will be history's most belated crowning, for the Shah has already occupied Iran's throne for 26 years. Until now, however, he had steadfastly rejected the idea of a formal coronation. "It is not a source of pride...
...Dealer Walter Silva has seen his paintings shaken off the wall; girls in the suburban Montecito Post Office live in fear the next boom will shatter their office's plate glass window; and Archie Banks, who watches for booms on his seismograph, says that they leave tracks on the recording drums like those of minor earthquakes. In response, Santa Barbarans have been bombarding city hall to do something. Last week city hall did. By a vote of 6-1, the city council passed an ordinance declaring a sonic boom an "unlawful public nuisance," with fines...
...since Voltaire came to town in 1758 to escape persecution in Geneva has the French border village of Ferney-subsequently renamed Ferney-Voltaire-seen so much excitement. The current fuss is being caused by another refugee from Geneva, controversial Bernard Cornfeld, 40, an American expatriate who has built his eleven-year-old Investors Overseas Services into the largest mutual-fund sales organization outside the U.S. When Bernie Cornfeld decided to move his Swiss-based I.O.S. across the border eight months ago, wags mindful of the 18th century precedent started referring to the town as "Bernie-Voltaire...
...small that she was at first billeted in a children's home. The daughter of an inventor and industrialist, she had written some poems that were totally commonplace and mostly unpublished. Now, galvanized by the experience of her people, she began to write the poems that can be seen, in her own words...