Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plugging a two-week stay on the sunny Black Sea coast for $91, including air fare from Vienna. Another popular Vienna excursion: down the Danube by hydrofoil for a weekend in Budapest. In Berlin, Checkpoint Charlie has become a bustling portal for tourists who want a peek behind the Wall. But of the major writers, only the Hungarian-born Fodor seems to be aware that the Iron Curtain exists; Fielding dropped all his Eastern European sections...
...Swiftly Dr. DeBakey took one of the two plastic tubes attached to the pump device and stitched it into the hole in the left auricle. Then he took the other tube and sewed it into a hole in the side of the aorta. At DeRudder's chest wall, the round plaque holding these tubes, together with smaller tubes for priming and flushing with saline solution, was attached to a hemispheric chamber 3 in. in diameter. Inside this was a Silastic diaphragm, which alternately generated pressure and exerted suction as it was worked to and fro by an external pump...
Searching for comparison, Wall Street oldtimers recalled October...
...This time it is confidence trading. Armed with more cash than ever, big and little traders roam the market for cheap stocks that are likely to rise rapidly; then they sell, take their profits, and start searching about again. The result is one of the most speculative markets that Wall Street has ever known...
...whom the family had entrusted it in 1938. It still carries their names, Brinckmann, Wirtz & Co. In 1956 he returned full time, now shares authority with the Brinckmanns and other partners but the Warburgs own the largest share of the business. (Eric also owns a substantial part of the Wall Street investment-banking firm that he founded, E. M. Warburg & Co.) By making faster decisions than bigger, bureaucratic German banks were able to, Warburg rebuilt a substantial business in international underwriting and financing foreign trade. Today bankers throughout Europe send their bright young men to train at Brinckmann, Wirtz...