Word: bread
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Simple Canapés. Except where wealthy men are in charge, U.S. embassies are often forced to serve bread while rivals offer cake. To celebrate the anniversary of the October Revolution, the Soviet embassy in Bonn last year hired the city's best club, lavished 500 guests with vodka, Crimean champagne and caviar. For the traditional Fourth of July celebration, able U.S. Ambassador Walter C. Dowling, a careerman, could afford only $287-enough to give 360 visitors a pass at trays of simple canapes and a sip of cheap German sparkling wine. In Leopoldville, where the Belgians established...
...time of trouble and hunger, Red China presumably looks to Russia for help. But to judge by the 1961 trade agreement between the Big Two of the Communist world published last week, the Red Chinese asked for bread and were given a stone...
...Juscelino Kubitschek refused to end his wild spending and to accept International Monetary Fund recommendations of deflationary austerity. Quadros is prepared to accept IMF terms. He has already introduced drastic currency reforms that have, in effect, raised prices by ending subsidies on the retail price of such commodities as bread (up 77%) and gasoline (up 80%). He has fired 35,000 government employees, and slashed the salaries of upper-rank government employees 30%. The result has been noisy grumbling that threatens Quadros' determined drive to stabilize the economy...
Died. Wallingford Riegger, 75, versatile composer whose music, ranging from the romantic (La Belle Dame Sans Merci) to the atonal (Third Symphony), won prizes and international acclaim, and whose arrangements, under various pseudonyms, of everything from sacred music to Shortnin' Bread earned him a living; of head injuries after he tripped over a dog's leash; in Manhattan...
...wonder the King wanted to call it quits. The mob of Paris forced him from his Byzantine cocoon of ceremony at Versailles to rule in Paris. They wanted bread. He promised them bread. As for the mob who butchered his guards and jostled his coach all the way to Paris, they hailed his generosity, "Long live the baker!" and Queen Marie Antoinette was saluted as "the baker's wife." It was time to go. In this whole bewildering montage of scenes, it is on the confused King-and all the confusing attitudes held toward him-that the mind focuses...