Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are also two large loopholes in the wall that Wilson is seeking to build around Rhodesia: South Africa and Portugal, which share borders with Ian Smith's rebellious land. In Washington, British and U.S. officials stoutly maintained that both countries would uphold the embargo rather than risk diplomatic breaks with the Western powers. But would they? "This is obviously an internal affair between Britain and Rhodesia," declared a Lisbon official. "If tankers arrive in Mozambique with oil for Rhodesia, Portuguese authorities will not interfere." South Africa maintained a stolid silence. But there was small doubt where its true...
Each morning the 35 fighter-bomber pilots of the Royal Laotian Air Force file solemnly into the office of their commanding general and remove their personal horseshoes from pegs on the wooden wall. Then the pilots trot out to their American-built T-28s for an other crack at the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...must be approved by the stockholders and will probably receive more than the normal amount of scrutiny in Washington, is the work of Harold S. Geneen, I. T. & T.'s hard-driving president since 1959. When he took over I. T. & T., Geneen boasted to a group of Wall Street analysts that the then ailing giant would become "one of the most important companies of the next decade...
...long ago, gallerygoing was a genteel affair. To and fro across carpeted floors swept the art lovers, sipping sherry. Safely up on the wall were the paintings, framed and titled, with prices on request. But no longer do the panes of varnish give onto idyllic visions of pinky Titian nudes, fluffy Millet sheep, plush Poussin valleys. Nowadays, avant-garde gallerygoing is more like the full 100 yards, with the visitors swivel-hipping through art works that threaten to tackle the visitor's body as well as his sensibilities (see color pages...
...Hambro, 61, chairman of London's Hambros Bank Ltd., largest merchant bank in Europe, who helped triple his 126-year-old family firm's assets (now more than $500 million) by pushing beyond traditional sterling markets into such U.S. ventures as a $5,000,000 partnership in Wall Street's Laidlaw & Co., a $20 million share in Manhattan's Pan Am Building, and a brisk, $70 million annual trade in British car imports; of a heart attack; in Knebworth, England...