Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ultimately, our best hope for a peaceful, decent world must lie in the development of closer ties with all friendly nations. These ties are best built on the personal relationships between individuals, which come from tourism and business activity overseas...
...come a little closer to Dalat last week when a dam and power station outside of town were sabotaged by the VC. The resulting flood wiped out a quarter mile of the Phan Rang/Nha Trang road (the coastal road). Gasoline and rice used to be brought into Dalat by this road. Speculation is that both commodities will be rationed until the road is repaired--and that could take months. That's too bad--just getting used to 'com' (rice) and the lack of buoyancy of landrovers, Vespas, and jeeps on the pot-holed and dirt roads
...flew off to Britain to seek a reprieve. His trump card: 400 million pounds sterling in his own and Malaysian reserves, which could cause great damage to the pound's value if exchanged for yen or other currencies. Whatever happens, Singapore seems destined to move even closer to Japan, whose businessmen already hold one-quarter of Singapore's industries and were conveniently in conference there last week...
Mehta's attachment to Israel and all things Jewish is even closer than his bond with Vienna. "I would convert to Judaism," he often quips, "if the operation didn't hurt so much"-but he claims that he follows his own faith devoutly. When Barenboim married Jacqueline Du Pre in Israel last summer, Mehta flew over, donned a skullcap and prayer shawl, and joined the Orthodox Jewish ceremony as "Moishe Cohen." The officiating rabbi became suspicious because Mehta did not speak Hebrew. "I'm a Persian Jew," Mehta explained to him, "and we don't speak...
...either case, the inevitable conclusion is that the vast majority of those not answering the questionnaire do not hold as deep a dissent as those who did answer. So what did the questionnaire show? It showed that 22 per cent (and 22 per cent is, let it be noted, closer to one out of five than one out of four) of 43 per cent of the senior class expressed the opinions accurately listed by the Crimson. 22 per cent of 43 per cent is equivalent to saying that 9 1/2 per cent of the seniors have actually expressed these opinions...