Word: emblems
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...African Liberation Committee. We have all been made to understand that the phalanx of Portugese military and American economic power arrayed against the Angolan people stretches to Harvard, which owns a substantial holding of Gulf Oil stock. Like the Angolans in 1961, we at Harvard must make a beginning.The emblem reader Salazar, Savior of the country: the shield says: everything for the nation, nothing against the nation...
...crossed that ominous threshold and are on the road toward a progressively and indefinitely controlled economy. How much further these restraints on our lives will extend and to what ends remains to be seen. I suspect we will be apprised as to what the plummeting arrow on the emblem portends much sooner than we think...
...North Carolina countryside and moved into a clearing on which had been erected a bright sign bearing the cryptic letters EXXON. Several high-priced executives climbed from the car, scrutinized the sign, conferred enthusiastically-and then just as mysteriously drove off. Within minutes, workmen ripped down the pole and emblem and sneaked away...
...invitations in Ottawa are more prized than the ones that come with the embossed gold emblem of the People's Republic of China. For the legions of journalists, scholars, politicos and adventurers (mostly Americans) eager to get to China, the box office is the top two floors of Ottawa's modern twelve-story Juliana apartments, where the 20-man Chinese embassy staff lives and works. Most visa-seeking visitors are lucky if they can get past the intercom in the foyer, where they are told by a polite English-speaking voice to write directly to the Chinese foreign...
...year, then switched to West Point, where he graduated fifth in his class (1954), and later took his master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics at M.I.T. Even more than most astronauts, he is an outspoken patriot. When colors were being suggested for Apollo 15's emblem, Scott asked, "What's wrong with red, white and blue?" Those were the colors selected. Scott is married and the father of a boy and a girl...