Word: weres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scrapping Flights. Halaby may need all his charm and brilliance to right Pan Am, which has just posted a record nine-month loss of $4,500,000, compared with earnings of $39,500,000 for the same period last year. On the lucrative North Atlantic run, globe-girdling Pan Am...
Selling on Sunday. The auto companies are not alone in their struggle against increasing consumer resistance. For the first nine months of this year, overall retail sales are only 4% above their 1968 pace-less than the rate of price increases. Even in Southern California, where department-store sales are...
Only four men were even aware of the secret nocturnal meetings last spring in the Vatican's baroque Apostolic Palace. Two were top cardinals in the church hierarchy. Two were key participants: Pope Paul VI and Michele Sindona, the tough Sicilian lawyer who in two decades has risen from...
"I blush to be so philosophical in theory, and such a wretched creature in practice," Voltaire admitted. "All tastes at once have entered my soul." Among them: the taste for rebelling and the taste for survival-rather splendid survival at that. Living with his mistress, Madame du Châtelet...
What really sets Akenfield apart is a sot-in-its-ways, living connection with the rural English past. With vision unblurred by the nostalgia that so often distorts literary renderings of bucolic yesterday, the inhabitants of Akenfield look back to a way of life only just starting to disappear and...