Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still and all, the new tourist is generally acknowledged to be less blight than blessing. He is friendly and energetic, full of spirit and a genuine desire to learn customs and language, not just cuisine. Most of all, he is determined to get away from the flashy focus of life at the center and find the crevices and corners that tell what a country is all about. Some, of course, go too far, end up reverse snobs who can easily afford to stay at a spanking-clean, well-located "name" hotel, but would rather die than pass up the "typical...
...Ajaccio (pop. 32,000) has a rich remnant of what was once one of Europe's greatest collections. Ajaccio used to think that the thousand paintings in the municipal museum were fakes, but the late Bernard Berenson disproved that judgment in 1959. Now the collection is becoming a focus of European art interest...
CHILDREN AND OTHERS, by James Gould Cozzens. Many of the stories in this collection also concern a fashionable Eastern boarding school for boys, and if they come off less well, it is because they focus on the institution itself rather than on the masters and boys. But Children and Others represents Cozzens at his controlled best, and the writing is as precise as in Guard of Honor...
...Back in Focus. The big airlift was the war's worst-kept secret. In Saigon, government information officers alerted photographers several days in advance. When the troops hit the Ben Cat touchdown, most of the Viet Cong had already slipped away. One U.S. helicopter pilot was killed, as were 20 Communists...
...deflation at Ben Cat seemed to snap South Viet Nam's war back into focus. Air and naval battles north of the 17th Parallel, major confrontations between Washington and Peking, all of that was in a different arena. There still remained the unspectacular, but key arena of South Viet Nam itself. In view of that fact, Premier Nguyen Khanh set out at week's end to reshape his Cabinet with an eye toward a more unified war effort. As U.S. Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor flatly put it last week: "The status of the pacification program is uneven...