Word: daylighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state's history, Madrazo declares: "The party cannot be the government. It should point out objectives - and demand that the government carry out those objectives." As a first step, Madrazo promises, candidates for every elective office in Mexico will be chosen "out in the daylight." He plans to replace old party hacks with bright young leaders, recently blocked an attempt by conservative P.R.I. office holders to scrap a constitutional provision restricting Congressmen to a single term. To infuse a "new mystique and a new militancy," Madrazo has set up three committees of distinguished citizens to advise P.R.I. on political...
...mounds of pollen to move from one part of the caldron to another. The curved hollow of the purplish-green Dutchman's-pipe is pocked on the inside by windowlike patches that are surrounded with pollen, which rubs off on the bug who mistakes the bright patch for daylight and freedom. Often the caldron provides warmth and humidity: sometimes it also supplies a nectar to keep the prisoner pollinating for as long as 100 hours...
Never High Noon. "A painters life is determined by daylight," says Hurd, who knocks back an unvarying breakfast of eggnog, toast and coffee at sunup, then goes riding across the juniper-knobby hills. He may dismount, whip out a tiny watercolor set and sketch a bit of his domain. These glimpses are pulled together in his studio, where Hurd toils in the meticulous technique of egg tempera. The results, recently on view at Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum of Western Art and opening last week in San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor...
...their own ability to fight sustained actions. The Reds are also striking ever closer to major cities. Last week two Viet Cong companies attacked a government outpost eight miles south of Saigon, killed a U.S. Army lieutenant. Another Communist force opened fire on a squad of troops in broad daylight only four miles from Hué, one of South Viet Nam's largest cities, but speedy government reinforcements killed 57 fleeing Reds...
...future of mankind. I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life which surrounds him. I refuse to ac cept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daylight of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality...