Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broad generality of the topics discussed inevitably produced more cross talk than consensus on the panels. Just as inevitably, many of the grand remedies for world ills brought out in the discussions were familiar nostrums that had been heard too often before-George Kennan, for example, attempted to revive Poland's old Rapacki Plan to denuclearize Central Europe, while ever-hopeful Harold Stassen proposed an arms-free zone on each side of the Bering Strait. Nonetheless, the convocation served the useful purpose of providing an intellectual workshop for a farand free-ranging discussion of some central ideas and issues...
...pieces, loaded passengers booked on a Panair DC-8 directly onto a Varig Convair 990 for a Lisbon-Paris-Frankfurt flight. Now Berta is talking about renting two of Panair's DC-8s and assigning a new Varig Boeing 707 to the transatlantic service. It was a familiar routine for Berta & Co. Panair is the tenth Brazilian airline that Varig has swallowed in as many years...
...turn the trick only after profiting from the experience of heartbreaking failures. Their first five shots fizzled. The sixth was on target, but its TV cameras failed to function. Ranger VII did everything right; its radioed photographs may have told little to amateurs, but they made professionals more familiar than ever with the planet they plan to visit. Then came Ranger VIII, and man got his clearest look yet at his closest planetary neighbor...
...must also realize that the cold war is a battle "for the hearts and minds of men," a familiar idea, the essential truth of which has been long forgotten. If Chinese Communist idealogy is to be effectively contained, the United States should present a counter-example more appealing than the war and dictatorship that have been brought to South Vietnam. While a new Korea might be temporarily "successful" in South Vietnam, it would weaken American prestige in the rest of Asia, Africa, and even Latin America...
Members of the committee, according to Watson, will be "impartial people who are not familiar with HSA" and who not on its board of directors. Watson himself and Deans Monro, Glimp, and von State are among those disqualified by being directors...