Word: counterweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motives with undisguised skepticism were beginning to change their views. Cambodia's Chief of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who three years ago had fervently welcomed China's embrace while reviling U.S. "imperialism," recently reassured Australian diplomats that he welcomes the U.S. presence in Southeast Asia as a counterweight to Peking. Other Asian leaders have made the same point...
...protecting the treasure." She had enough intuition to recognize Gertrude Stein's talent and made a life work out of nourishing it. She was not just a factotum for Gertrude. She frequently made changes in Stein's writings, and her brevity and staccato conversation were an important counterweight to Stein's discursive, convoluted style...
...free world, could not comfortably sit by while Moscow made its grandstand play for the imaginations and loyalties of the world's youth. National student organizations were proliferating everywhere, and in 1950, N.S.A. and 20 other groups formed the International Student Conference as the West's counterweight to the aggressive International Union of Students, a Communist-subsidized youth front. The logical instrument of U.S. policy was CIA. The agency institutionalized its direct financial support of N.S.A. under its PPPM (Psychological, Political and Paramilitary) program, in 1952. William Dentzer, now a U.S. AID director in Peru, was the N.S.A...
Died. Eric Fleming, 41, actor, star for six years (1960-65) of TV's Rawhide, who claimed that he was "an ugly kid" until he joined the Seabees and a 200-lb. counterweight fell on him, crushing his face, after which Navy plastic surgeons made him handsome enough to become an actor; of drowning while filming a jungle movie; on the Huallaga River in the remote Tingo Maria area of Peru...
Faced with this threat, Ky and the generals then invited nearly 200 representatives scattered across the Vietnamese political spectrum to a national political congress in Saigon. Its purpose: to discuss means by which a democratic process could be organized. Ky also hoped that the delegates would provide a counterweight to the Buddhists, a hope that seemed considerably encouraged when the Buddhists boycotted the meeting and only 117 delegates showed up. But to hedge his bet and avoid further violence in the streets, Ky also quietly began negotiating directly with the Buddhist leaders...