Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over endless jungles in the worst storms in 30 years." But upcountry among the Ibans (or Sea Dyaks), whose life is simple, tedious and poor, he was greeted with a traditional welcoming ceremony called the bedara, offered a wine to appease the spirits he brought with him, and a brass bracelet to signify friendship. Schecter cabled home: "I suppose it's work, but camping in a longhouse with bare-breasted girls who gently tip cups of sweet rice wine to your lips is more like an ex-New York writer's idea of nirvana...
...Robert Kennedy. Bobby, who had served as chief counsel for the McClellan committee for three years (1957-60), accompanied McNamara to a private meeting with McClellan. Kennedy explained that he was there "just as a friend." Their mission: to supply McClellan with some tough questions to ask the military brass. McClellan said he would use the questions. Complained Subcommittee Member Karl Mundt: "There's a little question about propriety. It's a funny deal...
...Prime Minister because it took to elections (1957, 1958) to put him in office and it is being to take two more (1962, 1963) to remove him. This conclusion, along with Mr. Ronald Cohen's conclusion in the March 13 CRIMSON, is premature. Mr. Cohen is accurately down to "brass tacks" in pin-pointing Quebec as the pivotal province in the April 3 Canadian general election. But his analytical blows are less accurate as he moves to his conclusion that "the Social Credit party and the Liberals should slice the Quebec pie alone" and "the Liberals should receive...
...Viet Cong have only .3O-cal. machine guns to fire at planes. At that, says the Air Force, the Army has had to call for Air Force help to get out of a number of tight spots. Claiming that their ground support has proved efficient in combat, Air Force brass also cites history, quotes Arrny General Douglas MacArthur as saying in 1951: "The support that our tactical air has given to our ground troops in Korea has perhaps never been equaled in the history of modern...
...they soon came on, oddities clothed in bright costumes, topical puns, and sly sexual allusions, and the temptation to classic reactions crept away. For this Pudding Show is fun, and more; it is showy, noisy, full of gaiety and brass. It is often witty. It is even a little socialistic, because the hero is the liberal Senator Hale N. Hardy, who has asked a troupe of Crimean dancers to widen the cultural scope of his native Booster (a not bad piece of Russian leaping and stomping gets going at the finish). Alas; the dancers, being ideologues, are not welcomed...