Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Department mailed out a supply of brand-new posters to members of advertising agencies, together with an invitation to let themselves go. Exactly 581 posters bearing inscriptions were returned to us, and duly examined by expert judges. Winning exhibits are now on display in New York's Grand Central Station. Naturally, many have an advertising slant: "The White Knight cheats at polo," "Pall Mall can't spall," "Avis is Hertz's Newsweek" "Xerox never comes up with anything original," and "I dreamed I could wear a Maidenform bra-Twiggy."." There is also the one about...
...parade was organized by New York Fire Captain Raymond Gimmler, 43, an ex-Marine who got his dander up when an American flag was burned in Central Park's Sheep Meadow during the April 15 demonstration. Gimmler made it clear that the march was not "a pat on the back for President Johnson." He declared: "Peace is not the is sue. Every sane man is for peace. The idea is just to back our fighting...
...Marine Division's headquarters in South Viet Nam. Teen-aged boys had them sewn on the backs of denim jackets, and every toddler seemed to be clutching a flag. There were even a couple of flags attached to the chutes of two skydivers who parachuted into Central Park. Though New York's police conspicuously sympathized with the march-1,000 off-duty cops donned uniforms to take part-they slapped the skydivers with summonses for "unauthorized parachute jumping...
...troops. But when the North Vietnamese moved in, the U.S., at the request of Prince Souvanna Phouma, provided aid and advisers in civilian clothes to the royalist-neutralist coalition fighting the Pathet Lao. American planes now daily airlift food and arms into remote areas of Laos loyal to the central government of Vientiane. The U.S. equipped the Royal Laotian Air Force, and U.S. pilots sometimes fly the planes with the tri-headed Elephant Lao markings...
Barking at the Sun. In Szechwan, there were no gains to lose. Large, populous (80 million) and strongly separatist, Szechwan represents a challenge to Mao's central authority and to the validity of the Cultural Revolution. Its political and military boss since 1952 has been tough Politburo Member Li Ching-chuan, 59, who earlier tacitly aided the anti-Maoists and was linked with Red Army Marshal Ho Lung, a onetime warlord and bandit, in a purported plot to depose Mao last February...