Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Considering the state of the world -civil disorder in many countries, starvation threatening more than half of humanity, the uncertainty in the economies of many great nations, and a war in Asia that might eventually destroy us all-it is comforting that TIME sees fit to devote a cover story to two football players. Perhaps I worry too much...
...after he returned from Asia, Lyndon Johnson summoned news photographers to the Cabinet Room of the White House for a picture-taking session. What was the occasion? "I'll give you the caption later," the President told the puzzled cameramen. Minutes afterward-when the stock exchanges had closed for the day on Wall Street-Johnson sent for reporters. They assumed that he was going to brief them on his last-minute campaign swing. Instead, he began reading a prepared statement...
When a reporter referred to the "cancellation" of his campaign plans, the President snapped: "When you don't have plans, you don't cancel plans." He did a little more to widen the credibility chasm by insisting that "I didn't get weary" during his Asia trip, even though hundreds of newsmen who accompanied him noted that he looked puffy-eyed and haggard. "Most of this weariness," said the President, in one of several barbed cracks at the press, "was some of you engaging in introspection...
...After the exhilaration of Manila and Cam Ranh Bay, the last leg of what Lyndon Johnson termed his "momen tous journey" to Asia was bound to be anticlimactic. Still, it had its rewards...
These relics date back to the fall of Bronze Age Greece, when bands of Greek warriors roamed through the Eastern Mediterranean. The new evidence shows that Greeks had penetrated 60 miles into Asia Minor, probably from their strongholds on the Aegean...