Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Sukarno's Anniversary Day speeches are usually something to behold. His head bobbing furiously, a finger jabbing at the sky, he loves wild histrionics that send crowds into chanting, clapping frenzies. But last week as 60,000 gathered before the canopied platform at Merdeka Palace, Indonesia's ruler put on a strangely muted, flat and unspirited show. He called his speech "Reach for the Stars," but it did not get off the ground...
...antique jewelry and stood mooning over the ancient necklaces, rings and Yemenite bridal costumes. "Leave me alone," she murmured as they tried to pry her away. "I'm staying here all night." Museum Director Teddy Kollek finally brought her out of the trance when he slipped on her finger a silver ring mounted with a 2,000-year-old iridescent glass piece from the Roman ruins of Caesarea−a gift from Kollek's private collection. An expert later warned her not to wear the priceless ring in the sunlight, which might dull its iridescence, but Kollek smiled...
...been Mrs. Todd, Mrs. Hilton and Mrs. Wilding, though not yet 30 years old, and had long since changed her public image from that of the little girl who loved a horse in National Velvet." "Ingrid's really like a pixie," said one of her friends. Ingrid ("Fiffi") Finger, 19, is no such thing! Pixies do not come 5 ft. 7 in., 36-23-36-although the figures were spritely enough to convince the judges that Ingrid, a Miss Germany from Niirnberg, should be crowned Miss International Beauty at Long Beach, Calif. As usual, all the other girls...
...ROOM and A SLIGHT ACHE. Harold Pinter's opaque one-acters are skilled finger exercises on the theme of dread...
...Times or almost anyone else says. And he has come in for more than his share of criticism. After he sent bombers into North Viet Nam in retaliation for a Viet Cong attack on Pleiku in which eight Americans died and 100 were wounded, the Times shook its editorial finger: "A solution will not be found by exchanging harder and harder blows." When Johnson ordered regular air strikes against the North, the Times wrote: "The greatest weakness of this reprisal policy against North Viet Nam is that while it is true the Viet Cong gets orders, advice, some arms...