Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leave their homes from dusk to dawn; four of them may not go out even during the day. None may receive callers, except a doctor or clergyman. Those permitted to leave their homes during the day must report regularly to police. It was enough to make South Africans wonder, said Johannesburg's Sunday Times, "whether they live in a civilized country or a land of nightmarish fantasy...
After more than a decade on top, one of West Germany's richest postwar wonder boys has come tumbling down. A big plunger in coal and steel stocks, Hermann Krages, 53, has seen his investments multiply 25 times since 1948. But though he got rich, he made few friends: Krages often used his minority holdings to badger managements until they bought him out at prices above the market just to be rid of him. The manner of Krages' fall last week told much about the immense power of banks in today's West Germany...
Laurence Harvey is properly icy as the strange Korean War veteran who won a Congressional Medal of Honor for leading a patrol to nearly incredible successes. Frank Sinatra happily avoids overplaying a major in that patrol who begins to wonder what actually happened on it. There is a broadly comic portrayal of a boobish U.S. Senator by James Gregory that calls to mind the antics of the late Joseph McCarthy, and Angela Lansbury is repellantly vicious as his scheming wife...
...wonder if the U.S. Government has looked into the tremendous possibilities for the use of the trading stamp idea in various of its financial operations. I am thinking, for example, of trading stamps as possible instruments for: inducing prompt payment of taxes, stepping up the sale of U.S. goods abroad, bringing about full payment of Government loans here and abroad, increasing the sale of Government bonds to finance the stockpiling of premiums...
...Globe's piece of careless reporting is an example of Boston's slipshod journalism. Such haphazard coverage of this event makes one wonder what distortions appear in the Boston press's presentation of the larger issues which occasioned this student protest. Adam Hochschild '63 Vice-Chairman, Tocain...