Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Phan Quang Dan, 48, another physician (he runs a clinic in Gia Dinh) and a favorite of Americans. Dan cam paigned for free trade unionism, free enterprise and a guaranteed minimum wage, urged meaningful land reform and an unrestrained legal opposition to any civilian government...
boycott would bring Britain into conflict with South Africa and endanger the strong and lucrative trade ties the two share. He fudged on NIBMAR; but to prove that his heart was in the right place, he delivered an ultimatum of sorts to Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith. Unless Smith agreed to form an "acceptable" government by Christmas, Wilson would ask the U.N. to impose mandatory sanctions on Rhodesian pig iron, chrome and asbestos...
...investigation of every forbidden game: masturbation, incest, sodomy, necrophilia, golf. It was shown only to the press and the festival jury, but Venice's Giovanni Cardinal Urbani felt obliged "again this year to express moral reserve." Retorted Director Zetterling, a 41-year-old former actress who learned her trade from Ingmar Bergman: "Censorship is such a highly complex affair. Things of violence, war, crimes-in Sweden this is the only thing we cut. But in another country, there are different moral values...
Like Brer Rabbit. He left it hanging in the Hill, though, and somehow a tantalizing rumor spread through the art market that there was something up at Christie's. Soon everyone in the trade was haunting the Hill and sniffing the air, each desperately trying to look at the painting without being caught looking at the painting. Indulging in a price-piquing little auction-house charade, Christie's directors twice escorted London's National Gallery director, Sir Philip Hendy, past the painting, slyly watched his reaction. Said one later: "He just sat tight like Brer Rabbit...
Houphouet-Boigny shunned the showy industrial schemes dear to many other leaders of underdeveloped countries. But the government invested heavily in light industry, with new factories built to manufacture everything from bicycles to bed frames. The Ivory Coast has also achieved a tidy trade balance, with imports of $236 million and exports of $277 million last year. Per capita income for Ivorians is $200 a year, the highest in Black Africa...