Word: sl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...including three elevator operators in the Foreign Ministry. "National Communists" fared poorly throughout Eastern Europe in the late 1940s: Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka and Hungary's János Kádar went to prison on Stalin's orders; others, such as Czech General Secretary Rudolph Slánský and his Slovak Foreign Minister, Vladimir Clementis, were tried and hanged. From 1946 to 1953, Eastern Europe underwent show trials; the "water treatment," electric prodding, and skillful use of the "pear" (a jawbreaking ball screwed into a victim's mouth) yielded well over 100,000 "confessions...
...tournament, no one outclassed Niederhoffer. Once again, though, he lost in the semi-finals, this time by the narrow margin of 15-12 in the fifth game to four-time champion Henri Salaun. Niederhoffer could not quite equal Salaun'sl gamesmanship in a match interrupted by so many lets that the referee reprimanded both players for unsportsmanlike conduct...
While West German officials watched nervously, Jordan's King Hussein recently sped round and round a Stuttgart test track in a Mercedes 230 SL sports car, so enthralled that he refused to continue his tour of a nearby assembly plant. The products of Stuttgart's Daimler-Benz A.G. have proved irresistible not only to Hussein but to enough other kings and commoners to make Daimler Europe's third-ranked automaker and the Continent's biggest manufacturer of trucks and buses. Half the "big" cars-with engines larger than 1.7 liters-and half the trucks on German...
...Yujiro drove away in another car. He has a Mercedes 300-SL, a Japanese Cedric, a Chevrolet and a Fleetwood Cadillac. He also owns two racing sloops, a twin-engined powerboat, and controlling interests in Tokyo businesses with assets totaling $5 million. And, Fujiyama Mia, he is an executive in a firm that plans to bring trading stamps to Tokyo. He formed his own film company last January, and has just completed My Enemy, the Sea, shot on location in Japan, Hawaii and California, and based on the adventures...
...favor of the compact car, are growing big for their boots, as the British might say. Citroën and Renault, Fiat and Hillman, BMW and the Japanese Datsun are adding new inches, new horsepower, and new luxury of interior appointment and exterior trim. Even the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL is tarted up with the same kind of speed-line chrome trim that is the one jarring note on the beautiful, continental-style new Buick Riviera...