Word: fates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great deal to do with making the country ready and waiting." Magazines did so, among other ways, by their stress on self-improvement, a characteristic that differentiates America from other times and lands where "men and women have been schooled to accept the lot into which God or fate put them." The U.S., continued Luce, has developed a "questing spirit-a quest not only for what we call the good life but also a quest for greater meaning in that good life, for higher achievements of mind and spirit...
...with a deep sense of pleasure and relief," said outgoing U.N. General Assembly President Alex Quaison-Sackey, resplendent in a Ghanaian toga of orange and gold, "that I welcome all representatives present." Relief was the operative word. It had been Quaison-Sackey's fate to preside over what Britain's Lord Caradon had rightly called the "lost session" of the U.N. General Assembly. Not since December 1963 had the Assembly been able to discuss issues freely or to vote on them. But as the white and lavender saris of Indians commingled with the rainbowed robes of Nigerians...
Encouraging as it all seems, no one pretends that the fate of Laos lies entirely in Laotian hands. Escalation of the war in South Viet Nam has forced Peking and Hanoi to put Laos on the back burner, and as long as the war goes on, nothing the Laotians do can amount to much more than a political holding action. "Events in South Viet Nam will decide everything," says Premier Souvanna. Adds Finance Minister Sisouk: "For the Americans to pull out of Southeast Asia would not only be a tragedy but a disaster...
...Operation Match executive said last night that a similar fate befell a Contact questionnaire distributor last week at Yale...
Senator Fulbright is being carefully isolated, and he may soon suffer a fate that not too many years ago befell a man who resembles him in many ways, Adlai Stevenson. No man of prominence in America represents the Stevenson tradition more faithfully than Senator Fulbright. He speaks out infrequently, and when he does, it appears to pain him greatly. He chooses his phrases carefully, balancing and moderating his assertions as would a conscientious logician. A politician in name only, he seems more the lonely statesman, agonizing over his place in history...