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Word: well (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Already, Three-Star General Affonso Albuquerque Lima, a disappointed presidential aspirant, has warned Medici's men that "more audacious" officers are waiting in the wings. Clearly, Médici's problem will be to keep discontent from boiling over in the streets-and in the barracks as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: New President: Medium-Hard | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

Happy birthday telegrams and letters poured in by the bagful. But at 88, Pablo Picasso remained in seclusion at his villa near Cannes on the French Riviera, granting no interviews and seeing only a few carefully chosen friends. The most that newsmen and well-wishers could hope for was to hear Picasso himself answer the phone and in his distinctive voice announce: "Monsieur et Madame ne sont pas ici . . . " Click...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 31, 1969 | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...handle the White House job. Connie met the Nixons last year when her husband, also a presidential staffer, was doing yeoman campaign work around the country. But her appointment is no political payoff. After five years' experience in public relations with two New York firms, she seems well equipped to give the First Lady's image a face lift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 31, 1969 | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

LONDON AP-Paul McCartney vigorously denied today the rumor that he is alive and well. At a resurrection ceremony held at London's Highgate Cemetery, the 24-year-old Beatle, who would have been 27 had he lived, emerged from his tomb to insist that he was decapitated in a car accident three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Of Rumor, Myth and a Beatle | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...succumbed to a heart attack. Conversely, ambiguous evidence of a public figure's death will almost certainly provoke rumors that he is alive. Some people believe that Hitler is still at large in Argentina or Paraguay; others contend that J.F.K. carries on a vegetable-like existence in a well-guarded private hospital. Long after his death, many of his fans believed that he was alive, but hopelessly disfigured, in a hospital somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Of Rumor, Myth and a Beatle | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

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