Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teak-paneled study in Karachi, gave himself a cram course in Thomas Jefferson, and emerged with a plan for basic democracies: 80,000 village elders elected to panchayats (councils) that were to levy local taxes, maintain roads, run police forces. While the panchayats nurtured democracy at the grass roots, Ayub Khan continued to practice autocracy at the top. Last week he reduced the gap; he signed a new, 134-page constitution, promised the nation's first general elections...
...regional governments with autonomy in such matters as roadbuilding, vocational education, control of local police. Four such regions* were formed years ago, but since then the scheme was shelved by the Christian Democrats, who feared that Communists, alone or allied with the Nenni Socialists, would build up powerful grass-roots political machines. Giovanni Malagodi, leader of the free-enterprising Liberals, who were dropped from Fanfani's coalition, warned that the rearrangement would make possible "a federation of little Red republics" in such Communist strongholds as Umbria, Tuscany and Emilia...
What was it like out there! Explain all that to them, to these people who have scarcely ever left their valley; explain the Chinese and the Vietminh, the tall elephant grass of the Haute Region and the paddy-fields of the deltas, the mud and the dust, the fighting, the suffering, the dying, and what he and his kind were striving to find behind all this death...
...embassy, where Ethel changed into a green suit (with matching hairbows) before lunch at Tokyo's Zen Buddhist Temple of the Green Pines. There, Japanese Politician Yasuhiro Nakasone had arranged for a three-hour, 13-course, all-vegetable meal. Kneeling in the approved fashion on a grass mat before a low table, Ethel accepted a set of Munakata prints and a pair of bamboo stilts-one of seven pairs that will be sent to her children back home. "Oh," cried Ethel, "I can see a summer of broken legs and broken arms." Ethel was certainly the life...
...Crab Grass & Berets. In the White House, Kennedy is still a man in near-perpetual motion, interested in everything that goes on about him and casual enough to take a hand in anything that interests him. Amid his other duties, he had time to notice crab grass on the White House lawn and order it removed, and to order the Army's Special Forces to put back on the green berets that had earlier been banned ("They need something to make them distinctive"). When he wanted a haircut a few weeks ago after a hard day of work...