Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farms as may be needed to meet the world's need for food-"but not to produce unwanted surpluses and not to supplant the efforts of other countries to develop their own agricultural economies." In addition, to meet "unprecedented demands arising out of drought and the war in Asia," Johnson announced a 10% increase in rice acreage in 1966, and said that corn-belt farmers would be encouraged to switch some feed-grain acreage to soybeans, a high-protein oilseed of which the U.S. has virtually no reserve stocks...
...easily the gaudiest aviator in Asia. His trademark was a black flying suit-a legacy of secret night missions over North Viet Nam in 1964, dropping saboteurs. Afraid he might be dropped by Red ground fire himself, Ky designed the black suit to be less visible swinging from a parachute against the night sky. He also affected pearl-handled pistols in the cockpit, and has a considerable gun collection, to which he added in Honolulu with the purchase of a .357 Magnum and a symbolically-named Colt .45 Peacemaker. He also picked up a .22 revolver for the demure Madame...
Soviet Switch. The first public inkling of Castro's split with Peking came on the eve of last month's Tri-Conti-nental Solidarity Conference in Havana, where 612 assorted "revolutionists" gathered for twelve days to map plans for upheaval in Africa, Asia and Latin America. On the surface, it seemed that Red China, with its "wars of national liberation," would command the most support among the hotheaded delegates. Russia, which has been soft-pedaling violent revolution and has openly favored the via pacifica in Latin America, seemed a poor second...
...Aryans swept through to invade India. In the 4th century B.C., Alexander the Great's phalanx conquered the land. In turn, the Indians bearing Buddhism, the Persians, the White Huns, the Arabs preaching Islam, the Mongol hordes led by Genghis Khan all used Central Asia as steppingstones to empire...
Behind them in Afghanistan's shattered citadels, they left one of the world's most amazing collections of syncretic, or fused, art. Peoples clashed, but their art combined. In Manhattan's Asia House Gallery, where they are on view for the first time in the U.S.,* more than 100 objects give evidence of how styles learned from one another...