Word: xviii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bedrooms and Highways. Nowadays, as Japan prepares for the XVIII Olympiad in October, Metropolitan Tokyo's 10 million-plus citizens don't even look up at the noise-measuring machine. It remains for the newcomer to stand, dazed and deafened, gazing at the measurement of the world's biggest city tearing itself down, building itself up, air-hammering its streets into rubble, ripping out its innards, and riveting itself into ever-more-sprawling, ever-more-ugly bigness...
...between industry and the workers, who are besieging the inflation-ridden De Gaulle regime with demands for wage increases. In his increasingly frequent TV appearances, he is somewhat pedestrian, but also shows a certain folksy appeal. Watching him on the screen, De Gaulle himself once said appreciatively: "Good. Louis XVIII in modern dress." He was referring to the first Bourbon king restored to the throne after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, a man who combined prudence with a ready wit, statecraft with a talent for compromise, and one who came to power after an indubitably great man. France, exhausted...
...Friday, Jan. 24 T,T,S 11 XIII Friday, Jan. 17 T,T,S 12 XIV Tuesday, Jan. 21 T,T,S 1 XV Saturday, Jan. 18 T,T,S 2 XVI Saturday, Jan. 18 T,T,S 3 XVII Saturday, Jan. 25 T,T,S 4 XVIII Saturday...
...their wealth and power, the prideful Rothschilds never forgot-or were allowed long to forget-their origins. After King Louis XVIII refused to receive Jakob's wife at court because she was not Christian, Jakob withdrew his support of the Bourbons; he was lucky to get out just before the revolution of 1830 toppled them. Because of Russia's pogroms, the Rothschilds refused to grant loans to the czars. In many ways governments began to feel respect for, or fear of, the Rothschilds. Amschel became treasurer of the German Confederation, and Jakob the Austrian consul in Paris. Nathan...
...sessions have been as much a part of diplomacy as the formal conference. Thanks largely to his wit and disarming manner at parties, Benjamin Franklin coaxed 55 million livres out of a nearly bankrupt French government during American Revolution. Bound for the Congress of Vienna, Talleyrand told King Louis XVIII, "Sire, I have more need of casseroles than of written instructions," and his success in softening the terms imposed on his defeated nation in 1815 was due in no small part to the superb table laid by his chef...