Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea persisted to the threshold of modern times that the monarch was a divine personage with magic powers, including the gift of healing by touch. Belief in the king's divine curative powers vanished as surely as belief in the king's divine right to rule-at least in the West. Today's monarchs can be roughly divided into three types: Europe's chairman-of-the-board king, who presides over his country but is not its chief executive officer; the tribal king of Africa and the Middle East, who most of the time still really...
...strangler bureau. Divorced and remarried (three children), he is rich in possessions: a Pontiac GTO, a Thunderbird, three sizable yachts, a 17-room ranch house and 80 acres in Marshfield near Boston. The whole empire is connected by two-way radios that keep the boss in constant touch as he swoops around the country in his Cessna 310 airplane...
Matter of fact, there's just one original touch in the entire picture. Calamity Jane, who died in 1903, appears in what every woman will recognize as a mighty cute Carnaby Street...
...ambitious, costly (about $350,000 per hour) new dramatic series Stage 67 has been the mail-order bride of the current season-so lovely in anticipation, so disappointing in actuality. Last week the frump finally combed her hair and put on a touch of lipstick. In a spare, dust-dry dramatization of Katherine Anne Porter's novella Noon Wine, Adapter-Director Sam Peckinpah in a single swoop revived much of the all-but-dead hope that serious drama can find a regular place in the TV schedule...
...million-dollar plant in Toulouse. Now General Electric, ITT and the Dutch Philips are vying to take over a French electric-equipment manufacturer, and the U.S. firms appear to have the edge. Says Debre's top aide, Antoine DuPont-Fauville: "We will try to preserve certain sectors that touch on our national interest, but in the future a French non will be the exception rather than the rule...