Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pushed through a glass door in the lounge. Three crew members jumped overboard and were fished from the sea by one of the hovering launches. Galváo was also gloomily aware of rumors that a Portuguese frigate and a Spanish destroyer were churning toward him over the horizon...
LABOR POLICY. The White House would like to avoid interfering with the normal course of collective bargaining. Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg has no plans to step into every strike that appears on the horizon of the New Frontier, plans to save his referee's whistle for situations where major sections of the economy are involved. But Goldberg's intervention in the New York tugboat and railroad strike (see Labor), however dramatic and however salutary at the moment of its settlement, may well make it harder for the Administration to carry out its planned policies...
Deeper Significance. For the two Air Force captains, the reunion with their families was an unqualified blessing. But even as the flyers left for Kansas at week's end, pundits around the world were already debating the deeper significance of their adventure. DETENTE. THE HORIZON CLEARS, cheered headlines in Paris' L'Humanité. "We welcome this action as removing one obstacle to Soviet-American relations," said a British Foreign Office spokesman. The London Daily Telegraph was more skeptical, and more realistic: "We should not forget that it has for many years been the practice of Soviet diplomacy...
...impassive. What impressed him about the West was not its crops and bellowing herds, but sullen stillness before a prairie storm or an eerie milk train passing in the night. Kuniyoshi's America seemed to have neither skyscraper nor factory. It was a land where fantasy stretched from horizon to horizon and a child played mindlessly in the ruins of a ghost town...
...SCRIBES (255 pp.)-John Middleton Murry-Horizon...