Word: toe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WOMAN. Italian Director Marco Ferreri creates a sublime parable of man's inhumanity out of this squalid tale about a fast-buck promoter who meets, marries and makes a freak show of a girl (Annie Girardot) covered from head to toe with brown silky hair...
Foxes & Friendship. Using commerce as a toe hold, Peking has established trade missions in Mexico and Chile. Last year Mexico sold an estimated 500,000 tons of wheat to China, plus 22,000 bales of cotton; a 500,000-bale deal is pending for this year. Chile is selling nitrates and a small amount of copper. Roving teams of Chinese businessmen have bought wheat in Argentina, arranged to sell some textiles in Haiti. But so far Latin Americans have generally bought little. U.S. estimates put Chinese sales to Latin America at only $25 million last year...
Considering the danger of a turn for the worse in East-West relations, such long-term credits are a definite gamble. Yet Western businessmen are eager to take the risk to get a firm toe hold in the potentially enormous market in Russia and its European satellites. So far, one of the main attractions has been Nikita Khrushchev's seven-year program to spend $42 billion developing Russia's lagging chemical industry. Even the West German government is under considerable pressure from businessmen to yield to such commercial temptations. Says Berthold Beitz, Krupp's general manager...
Humphrey, of course, badly wanted the job, but he had to walk tippy-toe in seeking it. He knew Lyndon Johnson would resent any overt pressures aimed at forcing him into selecting a particular running mate...
...Sophie Daumier, 27, lives with her ten-year-old son Philippe ("His father? Bah, a boy who wasn't worth marrying") and Actor Guy Bedos. A onetime toe dancer, she made ten films before last year's Dragées au Poivre (Sweet and Sour) established Sophie as "the most exuberant comic of the Nouvelle Vague." The latest Bedos-Daumier hit, Aimez-Vous les Femmes?, is a comedy about cannibalism; the piece de resistance is Sophie au naturel...