Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swift change indicates the fickle nature of popularity. The figures by themselves prove little 15 months before Election Day, but they are a symptom of Johnson's deep political troubles. The wars, Asian and urban, and such of their echoes as higher taxes, are not likely to disappear soon, and Congress shows little willingness to ease the Administration's difficulties. Top Democrats are openly perturbed. "I can't say things have been worse," says one National Committee official. Michigan's state party chairman, Zolton Ferency, predicts a Johnson defeat next year if Viet Nam and racial...
Cultural differences between the United States and East Asia contribute to stalemate and frustration on both sides and make an end to the Vietnam War more difficult, John K. Fairbank '29, director of the East Asian Research Center, has written in a Washington Post article earlier this week...
...International Seminar will hold its weekly open forum at 8 p.m. Wednesday evening in Emerson 105. Members of the Seminar who are from Asian countries will speak on the War in Vietnam...
...money, there are now 100 open cities to choose from. Easily reached by plane from Moscow are the workers' Black Sea health resorts of Odessa, Yalta and Sochi, with their pebbled beaches, plump bikinied women and soft Mediterranean climate. Five hours by plane from Moscow are the ancient Asian cities of Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara, with beautiful mosques and colorful bazaars. Northeast of them lies AlmaAta, a 20-year-old planned city that is the capital of Kazakhstan. The Siberian scientific center of Novosibirsk was opened to foreigners last year and tourists who wish to go farther...
Perhaps the Vietnamese visitors will leave behind a few business lessons of their own. One dainty entrepreneur spotted a costume ring in a Cambridge jeweler's window. It caught her fancy and she went inside to buy it, Asian-style. As she explains it: "I ask how much. He says seven dollar. I offer three. He say no, seven. I offer him four-say no more. He sell for four...