Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation." South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu spoke with confidence about the war effort. Asked by one guest whether South Vietnamese troops would soon bear enough of the burden of fighting to allow American troops to go home, Thieu answered with emphatic brevity: "Yes." Later, when the group presented him with a cutglass head of an American eagle, Thieu quipped: "You come here while we are talking of peace and give me a hawk...
When TIME President Linen told King Bhumibol that the group planned to donate a schoolhouse to Thailand, the King asked pointedly: "What size school-house?" Following a lively discussion of school costs, American Banker George Murphy finally broke the impasse by suggesting, to Bhumibol's apparent satisfaction, that the group's gift be 500,000 baht ($25,000), which the Thais could apply toward school construction of any sort they wished...
Everywhere the group went, the main questions on the agenda were the Viet Nam war and what is to follow when it ends. As they charted their continent's future course, Asia's leaders argued with out exception that the U.S. must continue to play a prominent role. Talking with tour members in Bangkok, Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman urged the U.S. to abandon its tendency to talk about "so-called priorities" between trouble spots in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere. Thanat's explanation was straightforward: "The people who live in lesser-priority...
Afterwards, as the grey, 280-ft. yacht knifed back across the inky waters toward Manila, Marcos' comely wife Imelda, a former Miss Manila, led the guests in a conga line. At length, Mrs. Marcos approached the TIME group and announced, "Now, the entertainment." Once they realized what she had in mind, the American guests rose and serenaded their Filipino hosts with a spirited, if slightly off-key Auld Lang Syne...
...towns ranging in size from 100,000 to 250,000. "At that size you have a civilized community, one without a commuter problem and still small enough that you can fight city hall," he says. In Manhattan last week, the newly formed Committee for National Land Development Policy, a group of builders, bankers and sociologists, called for "an industrial homestead act," under which the Federal Government would provide free land to newtown developers, just as it once gave land to farmers and railroads...