Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force official: "Frankly, we're not at the stage where you can have a detailed plan. We're more intuitive about this. You've got to have some horses and bet on them real big. It's the only way to win. The Russians aren't going to sit around waiting for the next fiscal year." Says another: "We want a hard-hitting, driving program, and Defense wants an orderly, tentative one. It's a matter of tempo...
...they acclaimed O'Brien's peroration: "I say let the blood flow. We have the cause and our cause is right." But in their private, more candid moments, they were beset by doubts. "Realistically," said one, "we Democrats are faced with the basic problem that the votes aren't there. We made our score in 1958, when we had a lot of things going for us, like Ezra Taft Benson. The same climate isn't here today...
...design, quality, speedy delivery, or simply because the goods are "Made in U.S.A." But businessmen don't do as well as they should in foreign markets, says the Commerce Department, because of a failure to use their proudest skill: salesmanship. "Out of 300,000 U.S. manufacturers, there aren't more than 15,000 who are doing anything at all about foreign trade," complains Commerce Department Export Director Edward Scriven. To maintain U.S. trade centers in London, Frankfurt and Bangkok, says he, "we have to canvass 3,000 to 4,000 businesses to find 50 that will exhibit, largely...
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...skin, but beneath it lies a colorless stereotype. As Baako and his German sweetheart careen from the valley of the Rhine to the hinterlands of the Zambezi, the common indignities, predictably enough, cluster upon them like cattle flies. But when she says, "I know a lot of men who aren't half the man you are, even though their skin is the same color as mine"; and when he feels "inferior to white women only as long as they hid underneath their dresses"; it is clear that the level of communication will be mainly horizontal. Love is a skin...