Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon's Vice President), works in the mission's accounting department. Bo is widely read, an art lover, an ex-journalist, and his French is so polished that he once taught the language. He likes to quote Balzac, but his favorite aphorism, from an ancient Vietnamese tome, is: "Do not torment yourself if your virtues are not recognized, but pay more attention to not ignoring those of others...
...dead man is dead. At last the Cabinet ruled that a donor is dead when his electroencephalogram (brainwave recording) has shown no activity and he has had no reflexes for several hours. Scarcely was this decision taken when Donor Michel Gyppaz, 23, died of head injuries at Paris' ancient, crumbling Hopital de la Pitie...
...kind of invasion and faring far better under the onslaught. This year 1,300,000 U.S. tourists will journey south of the border to savor the strangeness and delights of a New World country that counts history in millenniums, boasts attractions as varied as jet-set seaside resorts and ancient Indian ruins (see color pages). What's more, with the Olympics scheduled to open in Mexico City on Oct. 12, this will be a billion-' dollar year for Mexican tourism-the biggest ever. Mexicans are going all out to make a stay in their country one long fiesta...
...cars and 1,000 buses-a quarter of all such vehicles registered in Israel. Lining the streets or packed into bleachers, they will watch 4,000 uniformed Israelis wend their way through both the old and the new city. Jets will fly overhead, Centurion tanks will rumble past the ancient walls and 66 pieces of captured Arab armor will be displayed. Inaugurating its nationwide TV system, the Israelis will beam the spectacle to Cairo, Amman and other Arab capitals -just in case anyone is watching...
...because it was not only too small to accommodate today's traffic, but was sinking into the riverbed at a rate of 1 in. every eight years. Plans for a new bridge on the old site are already under way. And while people and cars still travel the ancient span, workmen have begun the three-year task of dismantling its 130,000 tons of granite-carefully numbering each stone so U.S. builders can solve the giant jigsaw puzzle and put it back together. In addition to the purchase price, McCulloch figures that it will cost at least another...