Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Franco last week returned to Burgos, a grey and Gothic city festooned with flags, flowers and triumphal arches. With him went almost everyone of importance in Spain: Cabinet ministers in frock coats, generals and admirals weighted down with medals, Falangists in blue shirts and white coats, and tens of thousands...
"In the United States, there are tens of thousands of people working on the intellectual problems of the military. There are scarcely a handful who are assigned, full time, to the task of working on the intellectual problems of disarmament, or of peace through the extension and development of world...
Girls on the Job. But these material facts of life were not the main force that sent 160,000 East Germans fleeing from their country this year. Under Walter Ulbricht's Communism, life is a dreary procession of rules and slogans that dragoon mind as well as body. At...
Same Old Mess. A year after independence, the Congo's economy was a national mess. Katanga, whose copper mines have missed hardly a day's work through all the troubles, was booming. But in the rest of the Congo, 70% of the labor force was unemployed. Exports, which...
Apart from his theatrical successes including two Pulitzer Prizes, Georges' (for the hell of it) Kaufman left an impressive and wildly varied shelf of gold cups. Ely Culbertson called him "the best amateur bridge player in the country," and Actress Mary Astor, in her celebrated diary, described him as...