Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million for livestock feeding, community development and an anti-tsetse-fly campaign. From the U.S., a $70,000 twin-engined Beechcraft Baron light executive plane. And from the vast Kalahari Desert just outside of town, a blinding sandstorm that nearly ripped Botswana's new black-white-and-blue flag from the pole before it could be tied down. As fireworks illuminated the swirling sand clouds overhead, a tribal witch doctor swept back his cockerel headdress, tucked his baboonskin shirt between his knees, and flashed a mossy grin. "There will be rain," he predicted. "Everyone will...
Internal Alienation. Peking has reacted to the criticism from abroad with hysterical cries of delight. "We love precisely what the enemy hates," exulted Peking's Red Flag. "It is an honor for the Red Guards to be attacked wildly by enemies abroad." Just to show their total disregard of world opinion, the Red Guards razed a European cemetery near Peking...
Patron State. Their main patron, through monarchy and republic, has remained the same: the state. Today their wall hangings decorate embassies, schools and government offices wherever the French flag flies, and museums beyond count. To celebrate Gobelins' three centuries of achievement, the pick of its greatest tapestries were on special exhibition last week at France's Mobilier National (the government department in charge of all official furnishings). The exhibits range in style from the elaborate allegories of Gobelins' first director, Charles Le Brun, to the joyful abstractions of the Spanish painter Joan Miro (see color page...
...well-reasoned amendments-one providing for federal checks on the quality of schools receiving Government aid; one extending Appalachian aid to 13 New York counties; one aimed at the state's 1,000,000 Puerto Ricans, permitting non-English-speaking citizens to vote if they have attended American-flag schools and are literate in another language; and one directing the President to establish a long-range planning committee for foreign...
...blessings in his speeches. "We have many problems," he says, "but there is not a nation in the world that I would want to trade problems with. We have more people working at better jobs, with better homes and better health and better education, than live under any other flag in any other land, and we ought to be thankful...