Word: gloriously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foreign devils do it. Even Moscow revisionists do it. But for Mao Tse-tung, 70, leader of the glorious Chinese People's Republic, to indulge in such barbarian ostentation as a limousine was hardly thinkable. Nonetheless, Mao has apparently decided to make the great leap forward in style. Peking has placed an order with Britain's decadent Rolls-Royce Ltd., for a $12,726 Silver Cloud Mark III and a $20,454 Phantom V. They should do a lot for his image at the Gate of Heavenly Peace, since with a little friendly assistance even the clock...
...Glorious Fourth that Daniel Webster predicted would be celebrated "with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires and illuminations, and copious, gushing tears" has come to be the day for the big ball game, the teeming beach, the crawling traffic, the long drink-in short, like every summer weekend only more so, slightly set apart perhaps by the American Legion parade and a public display of professional fireworks...
...wire, sandbags, searchlights and gun nests. Its peasants are then encouraged to till their fields in support of Khanh's regime. When the Communist Viet Cong occupy a village, they give out food, medicine, supplies, and free tips on improved farming methods. Then come the leaflets foretelling the glorious rewards of working under the Communist state. The peasant is reminded of the dynamic figure of Ho Chi Minh to the north, a man as popular as Khanh is inept. We are losing because we do not send water pumps with our helicopters, language experts with our soldiers, medical supplies...
...sheer breath-taking glorious photography and beauty of message, the film at the Billy Graham Pavilion-"Man in the Fifth Dimension" is tremendously impressive. Your report of the Fair should have mentioned this among the outstanding films being shown...
...impression was fed by the bad assumptions made by many reporters and commentators in the first minutes after the assassination in conservative Dallas, and it has never been fully erased. "The American press," declared Italy's left-wing magazine Vie Nuove in a recent issue, "has forgotten its glorious tradition of truth and democracy, playing along with the FBI and Dallas police to incriminate Oswald . . . who has no chance to defend himself." In Britain, that sometime philosopher, Bertrand Russell, has already set up a "Who Killed Kennedy?" committee to look into the situation...