Word: emblems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Artist Boris Chaliapin began sketching his portrait of Admiral Sharp from photographs. For a background, we originally considered CINCPAC'S emblem (see cut), symbolizing as it does the command's semiglobal reach, but in the end decided instead on the ships and planes that you now see moving across the cover's horizon. Nation Writers Ron Kriss and Ed Magnuson began planning the week's lead article and the cover story with Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum. The entire Washington bureau went into action; Military Correspondent John Mulliken interrupted his vacation to resume covering the Pentagon, while...
...into position by a Ministry of Information soundtruck, which led the chant: "Yankee Go Home." Then, under a barrage of rocks and bricks, the rioters broke through police lines and stormed the U.S. embassy. They overturned and burned cars, tore down the U.S. flag, replaced it with the Cambodian emblem. As embassy personnel huddled behind tear-gas-armed Marine guards on the third floor, the demonstrators ransacked ground-floor offices, destroying papers and smashing equipment. At the British embassy, the whole process was repeated, even to painting "Down with the Americans" on the walls. Said one Brit on: "That...
Decorating the Commonwealth's Coat of Arms and the tails of Qantas jetliners, the kangaroo has every right to be called Australia's national emblem, though many Australians sometimes wish they had never heard of the beast. Anywhere from 6,000,000 to 16 million kangaroos roam the Australian plains, alternately drinking up the outback water supply and eating the best pasture grass. For these reasons alone, the nation's sheep herders and cattle ranchers not long ago decided the kangaroo had to go, and at last count their vendetta was producing...
...Stars and Stripes were unfurled at Balboa (see map). Before long, a crowd of 150 Panamanian high school students appeared carrying Panama's national emblem. At that point, say U.S. officials, "there was no more trouble than you'd expect at a Yale-Princeton football game." The students were told to go home and headed peacefully back across the line. But there a mob was ready and waiting -older men, this time, including Castroites and ultranationalists, and armed with guns and Molotov cocktails. A cry went up that the Panamanian flag had been trampled by Americans...
...used to be that half the passengers on the Metro wore the Legion of Honor," crack Parisians. "Now the only ones who still bother to wear it are the conductors." Today, some 300,000 Frenchmen and several thousand foreigners are entitled to the Legion's lapel emblem, and Charles de Gaulle, who as President of France is Grand Master of the Legion, is anxious to make the list more exclusive. De Gaulle has recently approved a decree reducing the number of annual awards by 20%. Through normal attrition, the government hopes the Legion will have dwindled...