Word: downs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diplomatic Illness. What with the immense diversity of the Moslem world, the delegates had trouble joining one another just to talk. In the gaudy ballroom of the government-owned Rabat Hilton sat such disparate types as Saudi Arabia's conservative King Feisal, the moderate Shah of Iran and Algeria...
The group sessions were a good way to start. But you have to be young to take it. George Armacost, 65, the about-to-retire president of the sponsoring University of Redlands, came out to the camp one evening and started talking like a normal college administrator until one of...
But civilian rules do not always work within the autocratic framework of the military. Under the U.C.M.J., the C.O. not only convened a general court-martial but appointed the prosecutor, law officer (judge) and veniremen for the court-martial board (jury); he even selected the defense counsel, though the accused...
Shamateurism. The most lamentable aspect of this year's Davis Cup challenge was that, although the Rumanians were basically a sound and well-coached team, they had no business reaching the finals in the first place. The ideal Cup match would have pitted an Australian team of Rod Laver...
Their mothers may be only a Givenchy away from the best-dressed list, their fathers bespoke down to their brogues. But for children until recently, haute couture loomed as far in the distance as puberty. Then Paris discovered the minimarket.