Word: fans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with upper-class urban Vietnamese replacing the French." The escalation of the war has served to intensify this split between Saigon and the countryside. American soldiers on leave spend thousands of dollars daily in the city, while the fields are constantly despoiled by battles and bombings. Red China, to fan the flames, issued a manifesto in September which specifically described the "war of liberation" as a revolt of the agrarian classes against the cities which dominate them. Ky has issued several statements about reform in South Vietnam, but no action has been taken. Again according to Reston, "the Vietnamese leaders...
...counter. For "recommended customers," one Manhattan record shop provides a catalogue of some 2,000 black-market recordings. They are packaged in plain black cartons and, though stamped "private recording not for sale," sell for $9.50 for a single copy, up to $25 for an album. For the Callas fan, for example, the catalogue lists her excellent 1958 performance of Medea with the Dallas Opera, taped by a college student who hid his microphone in the footlights, and a 1952 Covent Garden production of Norma, prized by collectors because the cast also featured a then unknown singer named Joan Sutherland...
...with two assistants and 60 clerks. Secretary John Hay negotiated the Panama treaty and otherwise carried out Teddy Roosevelt's active diplomacy on a departmental budget of less than $190,000 a year. Before World War II, Cordell Hull used to sit in the draft of a somnolent fan for two or three hours of lonely reflection, then file a guideline dispatch to a dozen or so ambassadors and about 40 other men holding the now-almost-forgotten rank of minister as heads of the now-almost-forgotten kind of post called legation...
...Bonjour, Michel Jazy!" boomed the voice from a considerable height. Looking up, and up, France's world mile record holder beheld none other than old Track Fan Charles de Gaulle, 74. "You ran a beautiful 5,000-meter race Saturday against the Russians," said the President, in a rare mood as he visited the National Sports Institute in Paris' Bois de Vincennes. "Of course, your 10,000-meter was not so good, but then you had that Russian Ivanov against you-et il est formidable." Strolling on, De Gaulle found himself unexpectedly staring up at France...
During the Tufts game, a slightly inebriated fan reportedly turned on a boy who had been blowing a horn into his ear and clubbed him with his flask...