Word: ters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEA TER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A difficult time in the life of 1930s Blues Singer Lee Wiley, starring Piper Laurie and Claude Rains...
...risks we feel are insurable," says one Lloyd's underwriter. World War II was partly insurable for Lloyd's, which sold monthly policies against death or dismemberment caused by buzz bombs after calculating the odds at 1,000 to 1. But nuclear war is quite another mat ter; Lloyd's has added a clause canceling all its maritime policies in event of East-West conflagration "whether there be a declaration...
...post at all, but in fact runs the city of Hue and surrounding central Viet Nam. Although, unlike his brothers, Can has never been abroad, did not go to a university, and runs his fiefdom like an old warlord, the war in the central highlands is going far bet ter than anywhere else in South Viet Nam. An inveterate ao-dai chaser, Can has incurred Mme. Nhu's wrath: "He is stubborn and touchy, and unbearably obsolete concerning women." But, she concedes, "we all feel safer to have him in Hu?...
...expected sales this year of some 450,000 vehicles worth more than $600 million. They have been attracted by what makes Citroen what it is: a devotion to research and engineering that has endowed its peculiar-looking cars with countless ingenious features. Its research department is the absolute mas ter in deciding what a car will be like, gets whatever it wants in staff or appropriations. Pursuing what it calls "functional esthetics," Citroen slowly builds the innards for readability, ride and dependability, then designs the body around them. "A mask concealing what is inside cannot create true beauty," says...
...splendor they enjoyed when Germany was a patchwork of petty principalities. In Franconia, convivial Count Franz Erbach presides over three family castles (one is kept for hunting parties); at dinner, his liveried chief huntsman stations himself behind the count's chair to summon a footman whenever his mas ter's wineglass is empty. Prince Emich zu Leiningen, 36, whose escutcheon is at least 880 years old, is a globe-trotting big-game hunter who honed his marksmanship as a youth by taking potshots at family portraits in his handsome baroque palace at Amorbach...