Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They love wild cards in Nevada - and they've got a whole deckful in this year's game for Governor. Thus, while Incumbent Democrat Grant Sawyer may be the most competent of the lot, he seems about as exciting as a two-eyed jack...
Those of us who pioneered aviation could always define the benefits we were trying to offer mankind, and we spent our own resources trying; the space promoters can offer no better excuse for their wild financial orgies than such vacuous blurbs as "space is the future of man," and it costs them nothing to laugh off a fizzle such as the recent $20 million Venus fiasco...
...Meos were the worst," said robust Grant Wolfkill. "They ran around like wild men, always looking for an excuse to kill us." When they got bored, the tribesmen would fire machine-gun bursts into the cell; the trio were kept in heavy wooden stocks "like Salem witches." Their steady diet: rice and salt. By contrast, cracked Wolfkill, the Viet Minh "did more or less abide by the International Convention for war prisoners-we were at least allowed to go to the toilet." Despite their hardships, the five who came back were fortunate. American officials in Laos have been unable...
...prevent wild swings in the prices, the six major producing nations are joined with 14 consuming countries in the International Tin Council. The I.T.C. was able to moderate the Russian dumping by enforcing strict output quotas on its members and by putting pressure on Moscow, which is reluctant to insult the politically sensitive producing nations. But the I.T.C. is not a very toothy dragon because the U.S., which accounts for 23% of the world's annual tin consumption of 215,000 tons, refuses to join on the grounds that the I.T.C. smacks too much of an international cartel. Last...
Ride the High Country and Lonely Are the Brave are off-the-beaten-trail westerns about men-Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott in Country, Kirk Douglas in Brave-who attempt to forget the gall of the world in following the call of the wild...