Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tresses supported by a red crutch. Presently she extracted a pie-sized Dalian watch from her bosom and bestowed it on her suitor. There were other visual distractions: a colored tableau showing a large violin walking on spindly legs and stretching an arm toward a piano gushing milk, a blind man sitting before a television set, a beef carcass hanging above the singers' heads with a trumpet fixed horizontally over its rear, a procession of eight actors who dropped armfuls of china as a crashing accompaniment...
...bleatniks are a strange and varied lot. Seen in San Francisco, in the vicinity ot Union Square: a blind beggar with Seeing-Eye dog, with extended hand holding tin cup, and with his transistor radio "bleating" away. Could he have been begging for new batteries...
...those who argue that new Soviet jamming techniques would cause today's electronic-laden aircraft to lose their way in Berlin's frequent mists, Tunner suggests an old-fashioned remedy: complete radio silence and conventional, though strictly controlled, blind flying. By sticking tightly to proper headings, noting elapsed time and speed, the pilots should have no trouble hitting West Berlin. Once there, haze-piercing, coded ground lights could direct them into Tegel with no complex letdown pattern. Tunner's key to a successful lift in bad weather: discipline must be rigid; the pilot can have almost...
...suit, Russia's boss put in a few ugly growls, but carefully framed them in peaceful phrases. "Life demands that statesmen . . . should not only say reasonable things, but also should not permit themselves in politics to cross the line when the voice of reason falls silent and a blind and dangerous game with the destinies of peoples begins . . ." pleaded Khrushchev, almost as if he could not understand what the world was squabbling about. "Let us honestly meet at a round-table conference," he urged. "Let us not create a war psychosis...
...Cuba's scraggle-bearded economic czar. Che Guevara. Che, author of one of the basic Communist treatises on guerrilla warfare, proved himself a troublesome parliamentary guerrilla. He began by objecting to "almost all the affirmations'' made in the opening round of speeches, once stormed in a blind rage out of the conference hall-and into the ladies' rest room. (Said a Guatemalan delegate: "If there were not a halo of blood surrounding this flabby Cantinflas. he would actually be amusing.") Che's own opening speech was a 2½-hour diatribe against the U.S. (which...