Word: shaked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...showdown inside the Communist bloc, Peking-style slogans would be no match for Cuba's economic dependence on the Soviet Union. So far, Castro has managed to remain friendly with both Communist titans, but if Khrushchev decides he must force a choice, the resulting purge could shake the Cuban regime to its roots...
...same time, Nasser arrested leading army officers, including some close to U.A.R. commander in chief, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, an old friend considered responsible for giving Nasser bad advice during the Syrian fiasco. The army shake-up so far has brought imprisonment or house arrest to an estimated 400 officers, many of whom have been sent to El Dakhla. a sand-rimmed Alcatraz in the desert wastes of the upper Nile. There they are joined by growing numbers of civilians, imprisoned for anti-Nasser sympathies. Government spies are everywhere. One Mme. Badrawi spent half an hour at Cairo...
...full-length film, has done the job with a sure hand. He shuts the spectator up in that hellhole of a kitchen until he feels like a cabbagehead after 74 minutes in a pressure cooker. If Leftist Wesker expects moviegoers, at the end of the film, to rise and shake off their chains, he is going to be disappointed. They will hardly have the strength to rise and put on their coats...
Music & Mixers. For restless Ray Kroc, the road to drive-in wealth began with a series of detours. After early stretches as a jazz pianist and musical director of Oak Park, Ill. radio station WGES, Kroc spent 17 years selling paper cups and then Multimixer milk-shake makers. One day in 1954 he stopped at a drive-in run by two brothers named McDonald in San Bernardino, Calif. Impressed by their efficient operation, Kroc struck a bargain with the brothers: in return for use of the McDonald name and techniques, he agreed to pay them 0.5% of all future sales...
...attract steadily more investment, perhaps as much as $18 billion yearly by 1966. It will need more people-fewer unskilled workers, more scientists and technicians. The rapid forward tumble of progress will make for quicker obsolescence, shorter production runs. Today's wide variety of experimental space vehicles will shake down to a few reliable systems. And there will be more incestuous relations among the aerospace suppliers-being top contractors on one project, subcontractors on another...