Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could ask more than that of the U.S.'s new man at the U.N., and at week's end the Senate quickly gave unanimous consent to Goldberg's appointment. Quite clearly President Johnson's immediate aim in naming Goldberg was to put his negotiation skills to work toward solving the U.N.'s crippling financial crisis-caused largely by the Soviet Union's refusal to pay its part of the U.N.'s peace-keeping costs. Last week Goldberg said that he was well aware of "the gravity of the constitutional crisis facing...
...party simply chokes it off. While most Western broadcasts are no longer jammed (the jamming equipment has been moved eastward to blank out Radio Peking), non-Communist Western newspapers are still banned in Russia. When the magazine Kommunist recently urged the Russian press to increase its news coverage, its aim was not so much to free the press as to meet the competition. "We have to admit that bourgeois news agencies have achieved a high degree of speed in reacting immediately to all that happens around the world, while we are sometimes late," said Kommunist. "It means that a false...
...planted the seeds of the Viet Minh-the underground outfit that would carry him to power. During the five-year Japanese occupation of World War II, he carefully nursed alliances with the Chinese Communists, the Kuomintang and the American OSS, receiving some aid from all three. His steady aim: to strengthen the Viet Minh and one day kick out the French...
Strolling Ghosts. Tucked away in the hills high above the Mediterranean at Saint-Paul-de-Vence and commanding one of the most breathtaking views on the entire coast, the new museum is a gift to France from Paris Art Dealer Aimé Maeght (rhymes with jog). Having made a fortune in the postwar boom selling the works of Chagall, Miró, Kandinsky, Braque and Giacometti, Maeght decided to enlist his artists' aid in building a showcase for their paintings and sculptures. Thus Giacometti was able to help plan the ideal courtyard for his wasted bronze figures, which today...
...easygoing Chairman J. (for Joshua) Gordon Lippincott, 56, onetime product-development teacher at Brooklyn's design-oriented Pratt Institute, and courtly, French-born President Walter Pierre Margulies, 51, onetime chief designer for Statler Hotels. Says Margulies: "Designers in general have too high a taste level. Our aim is to speak the language of the consumer...