Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense rather than on witless emotions. High politics are high politics. Whether or not any of us accepts or is angered by General de Gaulle's course is completely divorced from our area as U.S. visitors. France will always be France. Its citizenry, in massive majority, will always extend an openhearted welcome to us. Its treasure of cultural and hedonistic glories will always be matchless...
...Yvaral, who apply his democratic principles to mechanized art. Moreover, at Grenoble his work is at last being integrated into a "consecrated modern city" in the form of a giant aluminum shield for a skating rink at the Winter Olympics. What Vasarely would really like is to extend his designs to entire cityscapes. Toward that end he plans to open a study center in 1969 where urbanologists, architects and artists can meet. Their goal, as set by Vasarely, will be "to improve the plastic beauty of the city housing development, as indispensable to man's health as vitamins...
Many businessmen still flatly refuse to extend credit to anyone under 21, but the ranks of those willing to take the risk are swelling. And why not? Teen-age consumers not only account for an annual bonanza of some $15 billion, but putting them on the credit rolls seems a good way to capture future customers. As a result, more and more members of the Now Generation are finding it possible to pay later: at stores across the U.S., nearly 1,500,000 teen-agers have their own charge accounts, a 36% increase in just 18 months...
...known. His strongest leverage on the junta has been that foreign governments have continued to recognize him, not the junta-appointed regent, as Greece's legitimate head of state. But at week's end Tur key-Greece's traditional enemy-became the first important nation to extend official recognition to the junta. Some other countries are now likely to follow the Turkish example...
...operations in South Viet Nam in his role as deputy commander of MACV in Saigon. An Oklahoman who was a World War II fighter ace, Momyer has done so well at his job since he arrived in Viet Nam 18 months ago that President Johnson personally asked him to extend his tour of duty for at least another six months. Only last month, Momyer won his fourth general's star, and it was he who last week greeted Johnson on his surprise trip to Thailand and acted as host for the President's Christmas visit with U.S. pilots...