Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wall-to-wall resort hotels and restaurants along Miami Beach, most of the busboys are now Cubans. A former army officer runs a boardinghouse. shares a single bedroom with four members of his family. A onetime accountant mixes chemicals on the night shift of a local plant. Ramon Rasco, once a prominent Havana lawyer, makes the Miami rounds in his battered old Chevrolet station wagon each day, collecting clothes for a dry cleaner. His wife Emilia has learned to cook-in Havana she had three servants -and the two eldest of her six children go to special English classes...
Hoxha's picture is plastered on just about every wall in the land. His profile adorns Albania's monetary unit, the lek, and at meetings of the Communist Central Committee (most of whom are related to each other and to the boss by blood or marriage) Hoxha speaks from a podium decorated with a plaster bust of himself. Like his country, Hoxha is full of surprises. Instead of being a rough, tough mountain chieftain, he is a former schoolteacher and was the pampered son of a well-to-do Moslem merchant. Though he has the mentality...
...officials are ex-Nazis. They say none of them liked Hitler, but every day people go over to that now empty bunker [where der FÜhrer died] and stand . . ." Unnoted by Mrs. Roosevelt was the fact that Hitler's old bunker is behind the Communist wall in East Berlin...
...demonstrated," said Krock, that Tshombe would cont nue to obstruct a Congolese peace "if and when a reasonable and constructive solution is formally and officially proposed by the U.N." Columnist David Lawrence coldly accused the U.N. of hypocrisy in claiming any legal right to enter the Congo. Said the Wall Street Journal: "It is not at all clear that the U.N. has some moral duty to subdue Tshombe by force. Secretary-General Thant is no Abraham Lincoln trying to hold together a great nation." Barron's, a business and financial weekly, stated flatly that "despite Communist dogma, the ends...
McCormick's resignatio -by -request was an ignominious end to what had started as a tale of triumph. When he took over as president of New York's junior exchange in 1951, McCormick-often called "Little Mac"-quickly made himself one of the most popular men in Wall Street. His personal history was the kind that warms the American heart: a onetime newsboy, he made Phi Beta Kappa while putting himself through the University of Arizona, then worked his way up from a $1,900-a-year job with the SEC to appointment by Harry Truman...