Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Down to Bare Bone." Right on cue, North Viet Nam President Ho Chi Minh answered the Pope's Christmas plea for peace with a typically savage diatribe against the U.S. Ho denounced "aggression by the American imperialists," accused the U.S. of setting up a "fascist dictatorship" in South Viet Nam, and again served up the same four preconditions whose acceptance by Washington would amount to surrendering South Viet Nam to the Communists. "The U.S. leaders want war and not peace," wrote Ho. "The talks about unconditional negotiations made by the U.S. President are merely a maneuver to cover...
...stake in Viet Nam. With characteristic bluntness, Dean Rusk summarized the situation for a friend: "All that's left is the question of what we do about North Viet Nam's attempt to take over South Viet Nam by force. We're down to the bare bone. Do we stand aside and let them take...
...professor at the University of Florence), he came by both reputations as mayor of Florence in the 1950s when, trying as a Christian Democratic politician to beat the Communists at their own social-welfare game, he was largesse to a fault. La Pira lived alone in a bare room above a clinic and gave away most of his salary. He was equally openhanded with the Florentine treasury, which ultimately cost him the mayoralty job. Fanfani and his buxom, dimpled wife Biancarosa (White Rose) have not only been close friends to La Pira, but have also regarded him as their health...
...named Yoshiaki Konami, 54, the Mikado boasts an electric eye to open the door, a "dancing" West German water fountain, 1,250 hostesses in evening dress or kimono, and 30 Japanese Rockettes who bump and grind through Papa Don't Preach to Me in top hat and tails. Bare-breasted "Arabian" beauties alternate onstage with lion-maned Kabuki dancers. There is an exclusive downstairs party suite with 120 of Tokyo's most luscious hostesses, as well as a 16-page leatherbound wine list in which choices range from $5.80 for a thimble of Hennessy brandy...
...Yorkshireman, an Australian, a New Zealander and a Frenchman-and last week France's Michel Jazy found himself confronted with two new challengers who could hardly be more dissimilar. In Wanganui, New Zealand, East Germany's Jurgen May beat Kenya's Kipchoge Keino by a bare .3 sec. in the second fastest mile ever run: 3 min. 53.8 sec., just .2 sec. off the still unrecognized record that Jazy set last June...