Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Covert assistance went beyond help for the democratic opposition. The CIA infiltrated Chilean agents into the upper echelon of the Socialist Party. Provocateurs were paid to make deliberate mistakes in their jobs, thus adding to Allende's gross mismanagement of the economy. CIA agents organized street demonstrations against government policies...
...country's top 100 companies-a first step, many felt, toward outright nationalization. The Exchequer went to Denis Healey, who during last February's campaign pledged that he would cause "howls of anguish" from the rich. Actually, the higher taxes he imposed on those in the upper income levels and on corporations primarily hit the middle classes. The policies of Benn and Healey helped precipitate the drop in stock market prices and erode savings but, more important, they suggested that Wilson was a hostage of the Labor left wing and the unions...
...first TAP Airline jumbo jets begin arriving at Lisbon's Portela de Sacavém International Airport at 7:55 in the morning. By 10 o'clock customs and immigration offices are overflowing: upper-middle-class professional men with their well-dressed families "on holiday," civil servants "on extended leave," students looking for places at Lisbon University, shopkeepers, farmers, nuns, Asians, mulattoes and frightened old people. Pushing a cart piled high with 14 suitcases and carrying a bicycle, João Tudo Bern, a civil servant from the Angolan capital of Luanda expressed the prevailing sentiment: "I have...
Bill Cosby? Dick Gregory? Or maybe Richard Pryor in one of his less savage moments? Wrong, wrong, wrong. It is ghetto humor all right, but it comes from a different part of town-the streets of the Latino section of Manhattan's Upper West Side, where a fat kid named Freddie Prinze lived for most of his 20 short years. Nowadays Freddie works another barrio. As the wisecracking Chicano hustler in the decrepit East Los Angeles garage in NBC's smash new series Chico and the Man, Prinze is the hottest new property on prime-time...
Hassan Fathy is an Egyptian architect whose life was completely changed in one moment of revelation. It happened when he visited the unspoiled Nubian village of Gharb Aswan on the Upper Nile. What he saw there, he later wrote, was "a way of building that was a natural growth in the landscape, as much a part of it as the palm tree." Sight led to insight. Fathy recognized that traditional architecture, unlike modern industrial architecture, is compatible with "God's environment" of nature, climate and materials. He never looked back...