Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...printing presses. Money in circulation has doubled in 22 months of Castro. The peso, once worth $1, is down to 28? on the realistic black market, and Cubans with savings are on a buying spree to convert their depreciating currency to furniture, jewels, paintings, anything of value. They wonder, though, how long the government will allow them that freedom...
Frenchmen looked up in wonder last year as a big orange balloon carrying two passengers floated back and forth across the country. Photographed by movie cameras in an accompanying helicopter, the balloon whisked by the spires of the Strasbourg Cathedral, almost bumped into the Eiffel Tower, skimmed within a few yards of Mont Blanc, dipped down to mast level over the Riviera. In Paris last week the resulting film, Voyage in a Balloon, gave audiences a stunning cloud's-eye view of virtually every remarkable tourist sight in France...
...these teen-agers hang around and do nothing at all, neither work nor play. Doing nothing, they begin to wonder if they are nothing. So their system of values centers on responses to "threatened masculinity." And these responses often bring trouble...
...Rockefeller-Nixon truce before Chicago as a "Munich," now calmly ignores the liberal program built into the G.O.P. platform. The Republican platform is, he says, the lesser of two evils. He hard-hits Lyndon Johnson as "the forgotten candidate." He writes off Jack Kennedy with sarcasm: "Sometimes I wonder how Jack gets that sailboat back to harbor...
After reading your cover story on new products, I wonder: Is Winslow Homer's Maine hideaway for rent...