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Word: answering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assembling a 100-man team to attend the talks, announced that Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, while not actually heading the delegation, would be "supervising, controlling, directing, going between Saigon and Paris to receive instructions." Ky will also bring his lissome wife Mai to Paris as Saigon's answer to the Viet Cong's attractive Madame Nguyen Thi Binh (see THE WORLD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE SECOND PHASE IN PARIS | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

There are rumors that France may have decided to take over the entire mercenary show in Biafra. The Biafrans have expelled Colonel Rolf Steiner, the German ex-Legionnaire who had commanded their crack mercenary-led unit (TIME, Oct. 25). On arrival here in Gabon, Steiner refused to answer questions, but an aide admitted that the Steiner party had been escorted to the Biafran airport in handcuffs. The speculation is that Steiner was fired because the Biafran military had grown increasingly jealous of his privileged position with Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu and had done their best to see that Steiner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Keeping Biafra Alive | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

Paradoxically, the ultimate is the talking menu. Instead of relying on the nonsensical literary sell, a waiter recites what the chef will offer that day. All very well; if the diner is not familiar with a dish, he has merely to inquire. However, in a few fancy restaurants, the answer is chillingly familiar. "This, monsieur, is a delicate blend of exotic ingredients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restaurants: Edibility Gap | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

With no more aid forthcoming, Eagle folded. And in British aviation circles, its crash raised an obvious question: With costs climbing and the government still favoring itself, how many more independents will fail? An answer was not long in coming. Last week smaller Transglobe Airways Ltd. (seven planes) announced that it was closing out its transatlantic charter business and also going into bankruptcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Eagle Folds Its Wings | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

Helpless and Hopeless. A likely answer is that people are just plain scared of crime, and so, as a result, they either ignore it or else demand harsh retaliation. In turn, the U.S. penal system punishes criminal symptoms rather than cures criminal causes. The product is more crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Psychiatrist Views Crime | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

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