Word: totalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israel, voters choose parties rather than individual candidates for the 120 seats in the Knesset, or Parliament. The seats are then apportioned among the 16 contending parties according to percentages of the total vote. The results were about what had been expected. Prime Minister Golda Meir's Labor Party collected the largest number of seats. With a slow count still incomplete at week's end, the projection was 56 or possibly 57 seats. With five votes from two Arab parties aligned with Labor, she will have a majority of one or two-just below the three-vote margin...
...over Cuba, posters proclaim TEN MILLION IN '70-a reminder that Fidel Castro is counting on an unprecedented harvest of 10 million tons of sugar next year. What makes that goal remarkable is that this year's crop will probably total no more than 4,500,000 tons. Nonetheless, despite drought, shoddy Soviet machinery and Cuba's inefficient armies of "volunteer" cane cutters, the Maximum Leader is confident of success. And why not? To achieve his target, Fidel is stretching the calendar...
...minor presidential candidate. Though he won only 3.6% of the vote and was eliminated in the first round, Rocard came across as an incisive, articulate and iconoclastic politician. He labeled the Communists "retrograde bureaucrats," denounced the Czechoslovak invasion, demanded that France withdraw from NATO and called for total worker control of private business. In his campaign for the Assembly, Rocard told audiences that France must discard its "model of American capitalism." He also criticized the Gaullist regime for failing to provide adequate schools and transport for satellite communities like Les Yvelines. Couve, gamely making the rounds of shopkeepers, stressed...
...with two sets, Beaton ended up designing 253 Chanel-style costumes for the show (total costume cost: $150,000) including 11 that will be dismantled during the performance, as Coco rips them apart and starts all over again. The musical's finale is a fashion show that features Chanel designs spanning 1918 to 1959. "It's like a Busby Berkeley number," says a member of the troupe. "The whole set is transformed into mirrors, platforms and rings going in different directions. Everything is turning and flashing at once...
...abortions vary greatly in the Boston area, usually from $300 to $600. In England the cost runs from $350 for an abortion done in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy to about $450 for one done in the sixteenth week. Including air fare (about $400) and travel expense, the total cost comes close...