Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rambo seems to have perfectly articulated the nation's mood with regard to Viet Nam. "In general, the public feels that Viet Nam was a tragedy, an experience they don't want to repeat," says Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History. "But at the same time, there's an...
DIED. Henry Beetle Hough, 88, journalist, author and environmental conscience who owned, edited and published the Vineyard Gazette, one of America's best country weeklies, from 1920 to 1968 and continued as its editor almost until his death; in Edgartown, Mass., on the offshore island of Martha's Vineyard. Hough...
Code names such as "D," "S" and "K" are sprinkled throughout. There are tales of a booby-trapped floor vault fortified with concrete, stacks of silver bars stashed in a safe-deposit box, hints of meetings in Europe and the Far East, and canes that become guns and daggers. There...
The way things are going, FORTUNE may soon have to publish a 500 Most Wanted list. During the past few months the news has been filled with tales of business schemes and scandals, of corporate intrigue and downright crime. The offenses make up a catalog of chicanery: cheating on Government...
Schahriah, it is told, was enchanted by the stories. But many moons later -- last week -- the judges of Cairo were enraged by the erotic tales. They said 3,500 copies of two unexpurgated editions of The Arabian Nights must be destroyed. For shame, cried many a citizen of Cairo. "If...