Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...together a new government, outgoing Prime Minister Jan de Quay and other leading politicians were unable to devise acceptable compromises on the major issues that split the parties: bigger old-age pensions, the housing shortage, lower taxes for middle-income groups. After one party leader had suffered a nervous breakdown and the careers of two able ministers had been wrecked because they tried and failed to end the crisis, Queen Juliana called on up-and-coming Agriculture Minister "Vic" Marijnen, 46, who finally succeeded, lined up the youngest Cabinet (average age: 46) in the nation's history...
...music's finest old traditions is that young conductors must make their debuts only when calamity strikes the maestro and leaves the podium bare. Last week at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam, Viennese Actress Paula Wessely had a nervous breakdown and Russian Cellist David Rostropovich had a heart attack, setting the emotional stage for the illness of Conductor Paul Sacher, scheduled to lead the Dutch Chamber Orchestra. Aging Conductor Pierre Monteux, 88, promptly appeared on the scene with his protégé in his pocket. "My pupil," said Monteux, "he's great. He reminds...
...been trying to procure them for Miss Keeler." Despite his subsequent attempt to protect Profumo and the government, said Ward, he had reported Profumo's liaison to British intelligence when it was at its height in 1961. Said he: "I've almost had a nervous breakdown. It's a terrible dilemma. One didn't want to bitch up anybody. You owe it to your friends. But I must clear myself...
...stories of how he was a teen-age partisan against the Nazis in World War II. With the help of a sympathetic University of Montreal sociology professor, he quickly learned English, then entered the university to study economics. All went well for a while until he suffered a nervous breakdown from which, as one friend said, he emerged with a "terrific instability...
Officially, the power company (known in Rio simply as "The Light") blames the rationing on a generator breakdown and a prolonged drought affecting hydroelectric reservoirs. But a Light executive privately concedes: "Even if the drought hadn't come, Rio would have had power rationing this month." Rio's power demands have been growing at an average of 8.3% per year, and the Light's capacity now falls 100,000 kw. short of peak-hour demands. Relief is not expected until the federal government's Furnas Dam project, with 600,000 kw. of installed capacity, goes into...