Word: faraway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russia, after all, had reduced its own troop levels. "We have pulled out of all our military bases abroad," he added without a trace of a smile, ignoring the huge Soviet garrisons in East Germany, Poland and Hungary, the supply planes in Laos, and the Soviet arms buildup in faraway Cuba...
...Faraway Places...
TIME asked Jones to paint his own impression of faraway places for this week's Modern Living story on travel, and Jones responded by painting places he has never seen (his own faraway travel has been limited to Alaska as a World War II War Department artist, Labrador on a FORTUNE iron-ore assignment, and Bermuda for pleasure). Jones riffled through scads of travel photographs and "picked places that said to me, 'Go, go, I want to go there.' " For the curious, Jones's melange includes a girl from Tahiti, some cliffs near Beirut, a Greek...
...said a high-up White House aide. At a vacation retreat in Palm Beach, President Kennedy pondered a speech he plans to make within a few weeks calling for added defense expenditures and for a deeper spirit of sacrifice among the people. Vice President Lyndon Johnson sped out to faraway Saigon to deliver to President Ngo Dinh Diem a top-secret letter containing Kennedy's offer to aid South Viet Nam with new infusions of money and advisers in its struggle against Communist subversion and guerrilla warfare (see following story...
Travel agents, steamship companies and airlines are reaching way out to bring in the faraway answers. A safari with Baffin Island Eskimos. A climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. Shooting expeditions in Nepal. Eat roast monkey with the Yagua Indians of the Amazon, and watch them shoot poisoned darts. Fly over Victoria Falls. A traveler can subscribe to a sort of Island-of-the-Month Club, called Islands in the Sun, that briefs its members on the latest and the best. Bachelor Party Tours, clipper voyages to the Seven Seas, motor caravans from Singapore to Istanbul, Tramp Trips...