Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mamie Eisenhower, reported her husband to a friend, is all out for Richard Nixon because she likes Pat. "Why," said Ike with a rocketing arm motion, "when Mamie thinks of Jackie Kennedy in the White House she goes 'Ssss...
Concerned by widespread corruption in the government bureaucracy, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi had wanted a free, two-party vote. With the Shah's encouragement, his close boyhood friend, Asa-dollah Alam, had taken to the stump at the head of a loyal opposition called the People's Party, which denounced corruption and urged land reform. At this point, the Shah retired to his six palaces and his pregnant third wife, Farah Diba, whom he counts on to produce a male heir in late October. But while the Shah relaxed, pro-Nationalist landowners herded their villagers to the polls...
Early last month, when a splashy advertising campaign urged Dutchmen to "taste the improvement" in their favorite spread, thousands of housewives obediently followed directions. Most of them agreed that there was indeed something different about the new version of their old friend Planta, the good-eating margarine made by Van den Bergh's & Jurgens' N.V., a subsidiary of the vast Dutch-British Unilever combine. In no time at all, the new Planta* was outselling the old, "unimproved" Planta, which had previously accounted for an estimated 13% of The Netherlands' margarine production...
...changes his shirt commits suicide, but Russian suicides cling to the superstition that a change of linen should precede death. On April 14, 1930 Poet Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky changed his shirt. Then he slipped a cartridge into his revolver and played Russian roulette. He lost. According to his friend Boris Pasternak, "the news rocked the telephones, blanketed faces with pallor ... [people] all the way up the staircase wept and pressed against each other." It was a blow from which Soviet literature has never quite recovered, for Mayakovsky was the unchallenged laureate of the revolution. A critic named Josef Stalin flatly...
...shotguns and delivered them to the local rebels for the revolution 1905; At 15, already a Bolshevik handyman in Moscow, he sat in prison for eleven months reading every book he could get hold of. Back in circulation, he went to art school for awhile. But when a painter friend heard one of his poems, he proclaimed young Vladimir a genius, set him on the road to becoming what his American friend Max Eastman called the "nearest to the banging in of a cyclone that poetry ever produced...