Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. The grey nether world of espionage, in a masterly re-creation by Director Martin Ritt (Hud) with Richard Burton as the disillusioned British agent on a cruelly subtle mission behind the Wall. Oskar Werner is his East German quarry...
...Some, after Gretchen and her sister Wendy, 13, disappeared, seriously suspected that he had carried out his threat. Several of his intimates thought they knew that a year earlier he had dispatched another girl, Alleen Rowe, 15, as wantonly as he had once smashed a pet cat against a wall. Even so, if one of Smitty's pals, fearing that his own girl friend was next in line for liquidation, had not finally told the police all about his homicidal hero, Tucson might never have caught up with its budding Bluebeard...
...Wall Street's tremors reverberated last week through Rome's Via Parigi, Rio's Avenida Rio Branco and Hong Kong's Queen's Road Central. With tens of thousands of non-American investors holding stakes in the U.S. stock market, foreign trading on the New York Stock Exchange rose from $5.8 billion in 1961 to $7.8 billion last year, when it accounted for more than 5% of all Big Board transactions. One reason for the market's weakness is that the foreigners have been selling. Last year they sold $409 million more than they...
...general seemed to have changed: in a nation-wide Gallup Poll, 78% of the Catholics questioned had a lenient attitude toward making birth control information available (up from 53% in '63). Active opposition on religious grounds came only from a few "old-guard" Catholics, such as Senator William X. Wall and Representative Smith, who have always been strongly antagonistic to changing...
...some of the interviewed said they would often look down at their hand, while on LSD, and see an ugly, clumsy mass which didn't seem to belong to them. Other students said that LSD actually wiped out their identity until they could fade into a knot on the wall and watch humanity pass, performing its insignificant tasks. "LSD," one student said, "is an excuse to sit back and let your imagination go berserk...