Word: signed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Berlin 18 months ago. Khrushchev made clear that the U-2 "banditry" was not the only thing that bothered him. He also cited recent speeches by such U.S. leaders as Secretary of State Herter, Under Secretary of State Dillon and Vice President Nixon. All, growled Khrushchev, were "a bad sign" for the summit. What seemed to rankle most of all was Dillon's speech, which charged bluntly that East Berliners "are constrained to live under a totalitarian regime, unlawfully imposed by a foreign power," and warned that in pressing for allied concessions, Khrushchev was skating on thin...
With its necklace of colored lights and blinking neon signs, Argentina's only outdoor used-car lot (the "Automart"), in suburban Buenos Aires, looks like its ubiquitous U.S. counterpart run by "Madman Mike" or "Giveaway Gus." Even the sales pitch is the same: "Good Runner!" says a sign plastered to a windshield. But there the similarity ends. Precious few '58s, '59s and '60s shine forth at the Automart. A 1925 T-model Ford is price-tagged at $500; beside it stands a 1930 Dodge at $875; next comes a 1936 British Lagonda...
...stock market was suffering the pangs of disappointment and uncertainty, and waited for a sure sign of the economy's course. Monthly trading on the New York Stock Exchange slacked until volume hit an eight-month low. Despite sporadic rallies, each day the market closed lower than the day before. At week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average was off 14.72 points, closed at 601.70, only a shade above the year's low point...
...SIGN OF TAURUS (320 pp.)-William Fifield-Holf, Rinehart, Winston...
...whenever The Sign of Taurus stargazes too abstractedly. Author Fifield gives it a powerful tug back to the earthy sights and sounds of the country-and the sheer physical exuberance of the setting gradually converts The Sign of Taurus into a triumph of Mexico over metaphysics...