Word: hues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading consumer product in volume of sales, and the clutch of future orders has already backlogged. What's more, the American Research Bureau reports that in color-equipped homes, NBC flays the opposition with every tinted offering. All of which, of course, explains the ecstatic cry over hue...
...strikes to the North mounted in fury last week, the Viet Cong were moving closer and closer to control of the whole top third of South Viet Nam. An atmosphere of siege prevailed in Hue, South Viet Nam's third largest city, where the population dared not leave the city limits. From Quinhon to the 17th parallel, the countryside swarmed with cocky Viet Cong units-some operating in battalion and regiment strength, many now openly wearing olive-drab uniforms and fatigue hats rather than the civilian-style black "pajamas" that once gave them military invisibility...
...barefaced racial discrimination," warned that it would do serious damage to Britain's relations with its Commonwealth partners. Speaker after speaker rose to support him, protesting that the legislation struck at the roots of Britain's traditional tolerance toward visitors and residents of any creed or hue...
Sing Along with Gongs. In villages threatened by the advancing Viet Cong, Addiss and Crofut had to sing to a constantly shifting audience, a kind of music to flee by. The duo played in the imperial city of Hue and raised $1,400 for the nearly 1,000,000 homeless flood victims. In one remote mountain vil lage, their performance ended up in a woolly hootenanny with the loinclothed montagnard tribesmen chanting and playing along on gongs and flute. Faced by antagonistic students ready to argue politics, Addiss and Crofut always retreated to song. "As soon as they realized that...
...last long. Byrrh is a French aperitif wine that has up to now been unfamiliar to Americans, but it is getting a big introduction from a company that knows what Americans like to drink and how to sell it to them: Hartford's Heublein, Inc. Heublein (pronounced Hue-bline) invented the ready-made cocktail, led the trend to vodka drinking in the U.S., and was among the first to take advantage of the shift to sweeter and lighter alcoholic drinks. The company makes or distributes about 125 different products, ranging from Smirnoff Vodka to Grey-Poupon Mustard...