Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. The knowing eye of Director Vittorio De Sica scans Italy's greatest natural wonder, Sophia Loren, whose Vesuvian warmth bubbles through the three-part comedy co-starring Marcello Mastroianni...
General Havoc. As usual, Khrushchev's speech was studded with supporting quotations from Lenin, and, as usual, so were the replies from Mao. The baffled Western spectator could only wonder which one was the real Leninist and just what the prophet had really said...
When the bridge-tunnel opened last week, its creators could safely boast that it was a wonder of the world. Its 17.6 miles made it the longest bridge-tunnel in the world, and, considering the time it saved, the $4 charge for car and driver seemed reasonable...
...local factory heads to do better, even publicly decried slow deliveries from the Soviet Union to other Red nations. Khrushchev knows whereof he speaks. The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe last week reported that the rate of economic growth in the Satellite nations has again slowed-and no wonder. Communist dominated Eastern Europe, where the laws of supply and demand are often in suspension, is a weird eonomic land of gluts in some places, shortages in others, and confusion almost everywhere...
...five can depend on a corps of musicians willing to play for incomes that average only $4,500 a year. All have plenty of work: by the end of the concert season next month, Festival Hall will have held 190 orchestral concerts in nine months, leading the orchestras to wonder if they aren't suffering from a surfeit of their own music making...