Word: grace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strategy of Panic. Humphrey's speech was a grace note in a week that had few of them. The amphitheatre itself was heavily guarded and isolated, like a prison camp or a nuclear installation. If the 10,000 young protesters were bent on raising a ruckus outside the hall, McCarthy's forces were determined to raise one within. "There is no floor strategy," said McCarthy's aide, Jerry Eller, only half in jest, on the eve of the convention. "Just achieve panic, and then...
...Kwei Armah, 28, is a young Ghanaian novelist whose heart breaks in a jerry-built hell of token down payments on infinite desires. The saving grace for readers is that Harvard-educated Armah is an artist right to his sizzling nerve ends. In this brilliant little novel, he takes the small, smoldering resentments of West Africa's perennially shortchanged people and explodes them into a crackling protest against the whole of human suffering...
Operation Kit Carson. After re-indoctrination, most hoi chanh go home or to a Chieu Hoi hamlet, and about 40% are drafted after a six-month grace period. Thus the defector can soon find himself back in the jungle, fighting on the allied side. One in five signs up as a scout for the U.S. Marines' Operation Kit Carson or joins an armed propaganda team, touring the countryside as living proof of the benefits of the Open Arms program. For an elite few, there are government jobs. Two former lieutenant colonels in the Viet Cong, Le Xuan Chuyen...
...question of who sat where, Prince Alfonso de Borbon y Dampierre came out ahead of Dr. Christiaan Bar nard for the seat of honor at the right hand of Princess Grace of Monaco...
What might have been the most innovative building ever to grace an international exposition will not open at Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan, two years from now. The United States Pavilion, a spherical, 130-ft. air structure commissioned last October by the U.S. Information Agency, is the casualty of a $6,000,000 congressional cut in appropriations for the exhibit. Expo Chief Architect Kenzo Tange calls it "an incalculable loss that will hopelessly upset Expo's overall plans...