Word: float
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...benefit of anxious photographers, she launched the expedition under a full moon. And she exhorted the reporters: "The management of this trip is not responsible if these elaborate procedures fail to work. In that case, don't blame us. Just put the copy in a bottle and float it down the Rio Grande. Some day, somebody may come upon it and give you a Pulitzer Prize...
Seen on a soft spring night, the luminous spires of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha seem to float over Bangkok scarcely touched by the blare of traffic, the neon slashes of bars and the ragged hurly-burly of mainland Southeast Asia's largest city. So too does the Kingdom of Thailand, proud heir to virtually seven centuries of uninterrupted independence, seem to soar above the roiling troubles of the region all around it. Neighboring Laos is half in Communist hands, Cambodia hapless host to the Viet Cong, Burma a xenophobic military backwater. The Chinese talons are less than...
...bars, cinemas and boxing pits. The jet age has made Bangkok the air hub of southern Asia, the halfway house for round-the-world trippers from the U.S. It is also rest and recreation for a carefully regulated 500 G.I.s at a time, on leave from Viet Nam. Some float down the Chao Phraya to visit Bangkok's Floating Market. A few are interested in watching the Thais fly their fighting kites-the national sport-or catching a Thai boxing match, where flailing feet are used as much as hands. Most make a beeline for Bangkok's myriad...
Strained Supply. The push overseas grew so strong at the end of March that it strained Europe's floating supply of dollars and several issues were scaled down or postponed. But by last week the rush had resumed. International Utilities, a U.S. holding company whose subsidiaries supply gas and electricity in Canada, brought out a $12 million issue. A subsidiary of Manhattan's Bankers' Trust Co., the eighth largest U.S. commercial bank, turned to the Eurodollar market for $20 million. Within the next few weeks, oil-producing Cities Service Co. expects to float a $20 million issue...
DEBUSSY: SONATA FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO (Everest). In Debussy's ethereal duet, written the year before he died, the sinuous lines of the violin float on air while the piano furnishes ground swells of sound. Debussy's directions for the second movement-"fantastic and light"-set the entire mood for French Violinist Christian Ferras and Pianist Pierre Barbizet. They also play Fauré's Second Violin Sonata, written like Debussy's in 1917 and likewise impressionist in manner, but more restrained...