Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hutu have reason to hate the Tutsi. For years the Tutsi refused to share any power or to intermarry with the Hutu in Rwanda, while their fellow tribesmen in Burundi followed a more flexible policy. And last December, Tutsi refugees launched a futile attack on Rwanda, breaking an uneasy tribal peace. Thousands of Tutsi have been murdered in retaliation since Christmas, and thousands more have had to flee Rwanda...
...life. Even his recordings evoke the aroma of fine cigars, the company of good friends, a glass of old port at bedtime. VLADIMIR HOROWITZ, who has not played in public since 1953, is more inscrutable. His humor is shy, his pathos and his beliefs are strong. Yet the two share a comradely distinction: they are the last of the great romantic pianists, and like Spanish-American War veterans, they live in an age that prizes them without necessarily knowing the grandeur of their tradition...
Needless to say, we have made our share of mistakes in the prophecy business, including one that we particularly cherish and at times still argue about: a cover story in 1954 said that a small car would never catch on in the U.S. But over the years, we have not been dissatisfied with our record in anticipating the course of war and peace, of revolution and business, of fashion and the arts...
...STOCK. Baker's fortunes began to grow when he first latched onto a 250-share hunk of stock in Milwaukee's Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. (nicknamed "Magic"). He bought the stock before the SEC had registered it, eventually saw a $28,750 investment balloon to about $400,000. Why had Magic's president, Max Karl, catered to Bobby? As Karl later testified, "I was impressed with his title." It would be good for Magic, he added, to have "well-known stockholders," and Baker "knew a lot of people." Baker certainly did, and he touted many of them...
...LAND. Bobby became a land speculator after Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers sold both Baker and Scott Peek, at that time Smathers' administrative assistant, one-eighth shares in a 143-acre development near Orlando, Fla. Baker paid $1,500 for his share, has so far got back about...