Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard talk was something else. As they toured the horizon, it became clear that neither side was going to open the way to a major breakthrough. Johnson found Kosygin temperate, intelligent, experienced, but firm. The U.S. must let the Vietnamese settle their problems, Kosygin insisted, but the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. should force a Middle East settlement?on largely Arab terms. They agreed on Israel's right to existence, but the two had already said so before; Kosygin had even mentioned it when citing the "new realities of the nuclear age" at the United Nations General Assembly earlier...
...build his pieces on a frame of chicken wire, wood and metal, cover this with burlap drapery and swathe the whole in rough plaster. As a rule, the work is cast in bronze and finished in patinas of brown, green or gold only when a customer looms on the horizon, for casting costs can run up to $20,000 per piece...
Tour d'Horizon. Soviet officials, meanwhile, bustled around Washington on the eve of Kosygin's arrival in New York, dropping broad hints that if Johnson were willing to break the ice, talks might prove highly profitable. The Soviet Premier, they said, was prepared to join Johnson in a tour a"horizon encompassing not only the Mideast but also Viet Nam, the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, and mutual limitations on costly new anti-ballistic missile systems. Another likely topic: Red China's successful explosion of a hydrogen bomb...
SEVEN KINDS OF GOODNESS by Max Eastman. 156 pages. Horizon...
Whenever black puffs of antiaircraft fire blossomed above the horizon, crowds clinging precariously to trucks careened off towards the action, hoping to see a captured Israeli pilot. Radio Cairo reported that one downed pilot had pulled his pistol to threaten a band of fellahin in the delta town of Zagazig; the fellahin chopped him to pieces with their field axes. As night fell, thousands of youth volunteers, self-consciously aware of their new authority, poured into the streets to enforce a complete blackout on the capital...