Word: bays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon's Independence Palace-normally completely off limits to aircraft-on its approach to Tan Son Nhut airbase. It was Nixon's first visit to Viet Nam as President (he had been there five times before). He insisted on going to Saigon rather than Cam Ranh Bay, the huge U.S. supply base that was Lyndon Johnson's touchdown spot on two trips to South Viet Nam. "Cam Ranh Bay doesn't count," he said. "That isn't Viet Nam." In Saigon, he proclaimed: "I believe the record is clear as to which side has gone...
...rest of the nation was more skeptical than Bay Staters. Yet the country was ambivalent. A Louis Harris poll commissioned by TIME revealed much sympathy for Kennedy. At the same time, the national survey found widespread doubts about Kennedy's explanation (see box, page...
Despite the wild enthusiasm, there was little harm done at any of the splashdown brawls. Drunken geologists in Houston paraded around with a decorative boulder they had taken from a motel courtyard, explaining that it was a moon rock. A few barefoot guests at the Nassau Bay motel poolside picked up splinters from broken glasses and bottles. And the four-man police force of the city of Webster (adjacent to the Manned Spacecraft Center) gently arrested a dozen happy drunks. The county sheriff's officers, however, seemed unable to find any wrongdoers. "This was a proud crowd," explained Captain...
...found himself in something of a bind, as he describes it, bored with splashing color around with the total freedom that abstraction allows. He felt a sudden need for "a kind of constraint," and found it by painting the human figure. He thereby ushered in a vital school of Bay Area artists who found a fresh range of figurative interpretation within the loose, easy brushwork of action painting...
...them. Housing space in metropolitan areas averages 40 ft. per person, no more than before World War II. To millions of people jammed into the overcrowded cities, Japan's industrial might has brought not affluence but effluence. Photos taken from Apollo 9 showed thicker smog over the Tokyo Bay area than over Los Angeles, and beaches are badly polluted. The government is moving to relieve some of these ills, but has had little success coping with high prices, which are caused partly by the consensus system. In Japan, no manufacturer sells directly to a retailer. Tradition decrees that every...