Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plums. The Christian Democrats' Eduardo Frei raises no such phantoms. The real danger, he believes, is the Communists, who will inevitably grab power if Allende is elected. His campaign is based on a well-reasoned program of land reform, more manufacturing industries, more technical schools, slum redevelopment, and stronger government regulation of Chile's mining industries. But he is not for nationalization, and he is not dispensing sugarplum visions to Chileans. "I'm not going to promise you miracles," he tells them. "What I do offer is constancy. I am with...
...network that cleared $41 million last year. CBS is already massively committed to sports ventures-it has agreed to pay $31.8 million to the National Football League in the next two years. Owning a club in the world's biggest market also puts CBS in a stronger position to deal with the pay-TV problem, since the network will be able to control whether the Yankees are seen for free or for pay. In fact, CBS Chairman William S. Paley and President Frank Stanton had been secretly negotiating with the Yanks for more than a year. Last week, they...
...program of recorded cha-cha-cha music was interrupted by a strident voice advertised as that of Emile Soumialot, president of the Chinese Communist-backed National Liberation Committee. "I am the new Lumumba," the voice ranted. "Just before he left us, Lumumba let it be known that someone stronger than he would come to complete his work. That...
...recent successes, clear victory for Nasser is highly improbable. In the sere heights of northern Yemen, a man with a gun cannot easily be dislodged. Declared the Imam last week: "Yemen has fought for decades against foreign intruders, and is today stronger than ever. We are ready to fight this war for another ten years...
...brother") to the wryly exaggerated Silver Dagger Song, she displayed occasional flashes of bitter humor ("This is a sort of 'Happy Birthday, Mississippi' song," she said, introducing Hey, Nelly Nelly). More important, she exhibited a fine facility for dramatic phrasing and a rich, bell-clear alto voice stronger than Joan Baez' and in some ways more interesting. Her ecstatic audience was not surprised, for Judy Collins only proved in Newport last week what her legions of album-buying fans have known for some time -that she is a mere maid of constant sorrow no longer...