Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...climax of the evening came in true Sukarno style. A flock of pretty Indonesian girls he had brought with him to Moscow in his chartered U.S. jet rushed up and kissed the top Soviet leaders. Sukarno then demanded to be kissed in return by a Russian girl. Resourcefully, Nina Khrushchev walked into the crowd of lower-ranking guests and spied a pretty girl. "Are you Russian?" she asked. "Yes." said the girl. "Then come and kiss President Sukarno," commanded Nina. The girl said no, she did not want to. Her husband said he did not want her to. But Nina...
Whatever his other difficulties. Jack Kennedy last week maintained his status as the most fascinating Washington personality in years. Beyond greeting a flock of ceremonial guests, he acted, with Jackie radiant at his side, as a gay and gracious host at the sleekest, best-planned reception within White House memory...
...brought electricity to hundreds of thousands of Greeks who never had known anything but candles, got the shipyards going, and brought strength to the nation's banks. Today Greece's drachma for once commands confidence at home and abroad. Tourists who once chose Italy or France now flock to enjoy the thin sun, sail out to the Aegean islands, and scramble around the magnificent rubble of the Acropolis...
...freighter equipped with a radio transmitter, a safe anchorage beyond the three-mile territorial limit, and a supply of jazz and popular records. Since there are invariably more lowbrows than highbrows in any given country, the pirate soon has an eager army of listeners, and a flock of sponsors eager to press money upon him for commercials...
Hanoi, long the brothel-studded "Paris of the Orient," is now grubby and cheerless, and the once glittering Street of Silk is deserted soon after sundown, reported TIME Correspondent James Wilde, one of the few Westerners to visit Hanoi in its six years of Red rule. Crowds flock to the "people's stores"-but only to stare enviously at shoddy goods priced way out of reach of the average worker's 40-dong monthly salary. (A bicycle, at 400 dong, is the ultimate symbol of status.) Loudspeakers call everybody to calisthenics three times a day. Dressed Chinese-style...