Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the actors attempted to compensate for their unpleasant situation with a spookiness that gives them the air of Charles Addams characters wired for sound. David Rome, as Morel, brings in a touch of Bela Lugosi as well, only to find out he is in the wrong play...
...strange-looking aircraft will wheel over Takhli Air Force Base in Thailand early this week, cock their delta-shaped wings forward like alighting eagles, then touch down with needle-nosed insouciance among the warplanes that almost daily raid North Viet Nam. They are the first combat-bound models of the controversial F-111 swing-wing fighter-bomber (originally, the TFX), contracted for six years ago under Robert McNamara to serve both the Air Force and the Navy. Takhli's new planes will be F-111 As, the Air Force model, which will be tested in bombing runs over North...
...Prime Minister tried to shrug off the omission, explaining that he had been unable to get in touch with Brown. Unmollified, Brown refused to take his place on the government front bench in Commons during the 3:30 a.m. announcement of the Labor government's economic moves. Later, in the members' lounge, Brown complained to Tories and Laborites alike: "I'm never consulted about anything." Then he gathered about 50 Labor M.P.s in the Commons' tearoom. "I'm one of you now," he said. "We are going to plunge this party back to the grass...
...elaborate computer system operates 24 hours a day in the City of God. Helicopters and a bristling network of rooftop antennas link the city with many of Bradesco's 327 branches, spread over south and central Brazil. Seventeen radio stations keep the bank's executives in constant touch with remote offices. While most of Brazil's musty banks know where they stand only two or three times a month, Bradesco directors in the 13-story headquarters building in the City of God scan yesterday's balance sheets with their morning coffee...
...sheet said that room and board fees "could be eliminated if the Harvard Corporation released unnecessary profits on its $1 billion principal. The sheet said that the Corporation would not have to touch the principal itself or profits needed to meet inflation to do this...