Word: spate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guerrier (The Warrior's Rest), directed by ex-Husband Roger Vadim, was lavishly lauded as her best bedtime story to date. To celebrate, she and her constant consort, Actor Sami Frey, 27, buzzed off to a Right Bank bistro to nuzzle the night away, touching off a spate of speculation in the Parisian press that Brigitte might, for Sami, convert to Judaism. ∙ ∙ ∙ As Russian Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, 52, told it to a select little clique gathered to watch the Bolshoi Ballet troupe at the Metropolitan Opera House in Manhattan, his wife, Irina, is an in curable...
...great spate of Administration-sponsored bills, only one of any substance has been passed so far by both houses-a measure to provide job retraining for unemployed workers. Aside from that, almost all the Administration's highly touted proposals are either dead or dying -medicare, a Cabinet-level Department of Urban Affairs, farm program, tax revision. Realistically, about the best the President can hope for from now on is favorable action on his expanded foreign trade program, and on a foreign aid bill of sorts...
...Dismal East. Despite West Berlin's stability, there was just a touch of tension in the air last week. Part of it came from the spate of new rumors that Moscow will soon sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, a move that would bring new efforts to shut off West Berliners' few remaining access routes to the West. West Berliners were also nervous at the chance that hordes of restive East Germans might choose the Wall's anniversary as an occasion for a mass escape attempt through the 95 miles of concrete, barbed wire...
Even though West German generosity is below par by U.S. standards, Washington hopes that Bonn's aid program will not founder in the spate of criticism. But the Germans have much to learn. As one Bonn foreign aid official puts it: "Because we lost our colonies early, we come to Africa and Asia with 'clean hands.' But that also has disadvantages. We don't know them or understand them...
Each year fascinated old grads keep coming back for more, often hauling parents along to make sure they get the point. Among the results: a spate of science-fair winners, many college-forestry majors-and platoons of reformed parents. "I've been camping out for 30 years," says one father, "but my boy has taught me things I never knew. If I dropped a spent match out of a car window these days, I think he'd make me stop, walk back, pick it up and spit...