Word: trades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story broke," reported Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, "I was on assignment in London. Getting home was a mishap on the way to disaster." The engine on Scott's VC 10 cut out, and the pilot had to jettison fuel for 25 minutes before returning to Heathrow airport to trade planes. "After that," says Scott, "my Volkswagen expired ignominiously on the Massachusetts Turnpike, and I showed up for work in the cab of a tow truck...
...which time the Ministry of Energy and Mines must have acted on the IPC appeal), the U.S. may go ahead and invoke the amendment. At the present time, though, the Yanqui dollar has begun to look like a more formidable weapon. U.S. banks normally underpin Peruvian industry and trade with about $150 million in loans; these funds have been reduced sharply since the expropriation arguments began. Another potential $700 million in U.S. private investment in Peru, mostly in copper mining, is being held up until the issue is settled. Advisers have rightly warned Velasco that such losses are more detrimental...
...West German tourists are welcome in Israel, and many-especially the young-are eager to visit the people of whom they have heard so much but seen so little. Last year more than 13,000 West Germans traveled to Israel and accounted for 3% of the tourist trade. Late this month, Lufthansa will add two more flights a week to Tel Aviv, doubling its total, as the German flag continues to follow trade...
...sharp contrast, East Germany has sent Israel absolutely nothing in reparations, takes a stern anti-Israell line, and has little trade or tourist exchange with the Jewish state...
Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Wages of Fear, Diabolique) is a French film maker whose stock in trade is grafting psychological aberrations onto standard and somewhat sleazy melodrama. In La Prisonnière, his first film in eight years, Clouzot once again mixes an ordinary story with kinky characters, a soupçon of violence, and a touch of Krafft-Ebing just to add some spice. The result is pat, predictable and more than a little distasteful...