Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assignment turned out to be a bitter one. Khrushchev believed that missiles had made surface ships "sitting ducks." He derided cruisers as "fit only for traveling on state visits," and scrapped four that were still under construction. He even passed the word to the admirals to stay away from the round of receptions and parties during the 1956 air force day celebrations. Spotting four soldiers rowing a boat on a Moscow pond, Khrushchev joked to one of his American guests: "There is our navy!" He went as far as to contemplate disbanding the navy and transferring its missile-firing submarines...
Tattered Treasures. Writhing in the agony of prolonged battle, once-lovely Hue remained the only city in South Viet Nam where the V.C. flag still flew. Ten days of bitter street fighting cleared -at least temporarily-the modern residential section south of the Perfume River, but the battle raged with full fury in the rubble-strewn Citadel, the early 19th century imperial fortress that holds much of Viet Nam's architectural and cultural treasure. As thousands of refugees huddled under a grey pall from countless fires, 1,000 U.S. Marines crossed the river to help the 2,500 South...
Unfrocked Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali, 26, born Cassius Clay, is not quite the patsy that Havana Radio thought he was. Castro's crier expected Cassius to contribute a few bitter words about the U.S. in connection with the opening in Havana of a movie biography, Cassius Clay, made by a French company but not released in the U.S. A Cuban reporter reached him by phone, began pumping him with on-the-air questions about everything from boxing to Viet Nam. Hold on, said Cassius: "This interview will not make me any money. No money, no conversation." Humphed Havana Radio...
...Edwards, a tall (6 ft. 8 in.), brainy Negro, passed them all up to become an assistant professor of sociology at virtually all-white San Jose because "scholarship was my longest suit." Not quite. For the past six months, Harry's long suit has been Black Power and bitter protest-specifically, a campaign to cajole or coerce Negro athletes into boycotting what he considers "white-dominated" sporting events, from next fall's Mexico City Olympics on down...
...result is that race, war and politics are becoming peripheral themes. What counts more is the intensely personal vision that deals with a romantic quest for love and "self-realization." Janis Ian launched her precocious career with Society's Child, a bitter plaint about a white girl pressured into breaking up with her Negro boy friend, but has since concentrated more on what she calls "mood songs." Arlo Guthrie, 20, expresses antiwar sentiment in Alice's Restaurant (TIME, Jan. 12), but he wryly folds it into the overall theme of his own picaresque adventures with bureaucratic authority...