Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven armed guerrillas broke into the American glass-company executive's home in an affluent suburb of Caracas. While his wife and a maid watched helplessly, Niehous, 44, was injected with a soporific and carried into the night. At first it was expected that the ultra-leftist terrorists, like the majority of their counterparts in Uruguay and Argentina, would simply demand that a huge ransom be paid by the company's big (1975 sales: $2.2 billion) Ohio-based U.S. parent. Instead, the Niehous case brought a new dimension to the political kidnapings that have been plaguing businessmen, particularly...
...dissolution of his political base which is composed of factory owners and large landholders. Faced with increasing pressure from the African majority to set a definite schedule for their enfranchisement, Smith has opposed the growth and solidification of black opposition. He has also hindered the development of a dissatisfied ultra-conservative white faction by the strategy of repeatedly making incomplete concessions to the black population and then refusing to honor the agreements. One of Smith's former political opponents complains that "dealing with Smith is like trying to nail a jelly to the wall...
...seemed for a while after Maeno, 29, took off, accompanied by a photo plane. But after half an hour of picture taking, Maeno radioed to his wingman that he had "something to do in Setagaya"-a Tokyo area that is home to Yoshio Kodama, the millionaire ultra-nationalist who had been Lockheed's principal go-between in its efforts to use bribes to help sell its planes in Japan...
...conflict between China and the Soviet Union for ideological leadership of the Communist world is usually confined to a war of angry words. But not always. TIME has learned that in recent months there have been severe outbreaks of fighting near the Ussuri and Amur rivers, which constitute the ultra-sensitive border between China and Siberia, where several bloody skirmishes took place in 1969. This time the clashes, detected by Western aerial reconnaissance, have been carefully hushed up. Why? The Soviets do not want to advertise the border conflict when they are trying to assess the murky ideological struggle still...
Certainly American fashion today is much more than pretty clothes. Says Geraldine Stutz, president of ultra-chic Henri Bendel in Manhattan and one of retailing's shrewdest oracles: "Fashion is a much broader concept now. It's not just from the chin to the ankles. Fashion now means health, good looks, being in shape, good skin, beauty care. It means wine, furniture, needlecraft, growing things. Fashion today means the environment as well as clothes...