Word: armes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bits" of information; the human eye with one glance takes in 100 million "bits." In short, however intricately engineered, no instrument, no computer can quite replace man. As one scientist observed, "You can study a girl's measurements, but it will never be a substitute for putting your arm around...
...nice to see you, Harold, even if nothing comes of all this. The champagne was Veuve Clicquot 1959 which was Churchill's favorite, and it helped put George Brown in such a comradely mood that, as they rose from the table, he grabbed De Gaulle by the arm. The French gasped; it was comparable to tweaking the Queen's ear. But De Gaulle was unperturbed. He is genuinely fond of the impulsive Brown whom he praised in his toast for "his ideas and the way he expresses them...
...second largest party. But he merely countered with his standard attacks on the U.S. and routine demands for Japanese neutrality, with plenty of references to corruption thrown in. More exciting to outsiders was the debut on the national scene of Komeito, the Clean Government Party, which is the political arm of the militant Soka Gakkai Buddhist sect. Competing for 32 seats, Komeito's candidates were young and energetic, and observers gave them a good chance to win at least 27 of their contests. The election-eve guess was that Sato and his Liberal Democratic Party would be returned...
...must realize that the four central characters in this story were all moving very quickly as it happened. So the next time the man was seen he stepped out of Leavitt and Peirce and had fewer papers under his arm. He was about to sell another to a skinny man with a pinched nose and a brown fedora when the fiery-eyed student with black hair said, "Don't. There's nothing in that newspaper...
...students and the grey-capped, rubber-faced, Harvard-sweatshirted newsboy man went their separate ways. The students went home and the whistling man went over to the Out of Town newsstand and bought a whole pile of fresh crisp papers to hide under his arm and disappear down the subway with. They cost ten cents each. One should always be suspicious of people wearing Harvard sweatshirts...