Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Source, Michener (1 last week) 2. The Man with the Golden Gun, Fleming (5) 3. Hotel, Hailey (2) 4. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (3) 5. The Green Berets, Moore (4) 6. The Looking Glass War, le Carre (6) 7. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (7) 8. The Ambassador, West (9) 9. Thomas, Mydans 10. Night of Camp David, Knebel...
...many another rising foreign dignitary, Chiang came to Washington at least partly to boost his international stock and to make himself more visible; his father, after all, is now 77. Invited by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Chiang and his entourage were greeted by an honor guard and a 19-gun salute. Then the lean, bareheaded American and the short, stocky Chinese with the Homburg disappeared for a series of conferences. Just before leaving Taipei, Chiang had declared that "a final and decisive war between Communist and Nationalist Chinese forces is inevitable," but he was much more restrained in Washington...
From the big hill in the middle of the unimaginative, only sloping course, it looked like an all-Friar show-for the first four miles. Barry Brown, second to Hewlett last year, took the lead from the gun and never looked back...
...Destroy Them All." By last week the bees had invaded Rio's main busniess Street, Rio Branco. A swarm like a great black watermelon was hanging in front of the Armed Forces Military Command building, and African bees were attacking civilians after driving sentries away from their machine-gun Posts. Reported casualties: more than 60 'Cariocas" stung and a couple of bees that had been bold enough to dive bomb cars and buses...
Cool Poetry. "Macadam, gun-grey as a tunny's belt/Leaps from Far Rockaway to Golden Gate," is was this America on the move, ironing out its regional peculiarities and aswarm immigrant energy, that artists were now forced consider, and most of them found viewing best when equipped with foreign spectacles. While the newspaper-trained illustrators who became the ashcan school saw ugliness as a police court scene, their friend. Maurice Prendergast, went to Paris, returned to paint Manhattan's Central Park in the pure colors of a soft-hued tapestry...