Word: icebergs
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...idea was to spark a boycott of iceberg lettuce-the kind that looks like a head of cabbage-in support of Cesar Chavez's two-year-old strike against growers in California. Chavez, grateful for the Democratic boost, believes that the boycott is beginning to take hold and in fact is doing as well as the grape boycott did at a comparable time in its history. But the evidence is not so reassuring. For a while after the convention, many sympathizers gave up lettuce. The growers were shipping only 300,000 cartons a day out of Salinas Valley instead...
Maudling's subsequent relations with Heath have been described as being occasionally on "iceberg to iceberg" terms. But Maudling remained loyal to the party and its leader, and in 1970, after the Tories' return to power, accepted the politically sensitive post of Home Secretary. He has a widespread reputation for conciliation and consensus, and his easy manner provided a welcome contrast to Heath's gritty obstinacy. Within the Cabinet Maudling argued against certain Heath policies. He favored wage controls and a more strenuous fight against inflation, and he opposed Heath's policy of direct confrontation with...
...most were still alone, all alone last week, somewhere on the wide, wide sea between Plymouth, England, and Newport, R.I. They were still battling cold and cramp, waves and weariness; still leary of sleep lest their untended craft be run down by a freighter or collide with an iceberg. They were still in danger of drifting aimlessly with broken equipment, or of being swept overboard with no help near...
...America's traditional links to Europe; to many Europeans, it seemed also to foretell a pendular swing of U.S. attention back to the kind of overfascination with China that prevailed up through the Roosevelt years. Moscow darkly suggested that the communique was only "the tip of an iceberg." Saigon puzzled unhappily over the fact that, unlike Japan and South Korea, South Viet Nam was given no specific U.S. pledge of support in the communique. Indonesians voiced the fear that Japan, left out in the cold, might arm itself with nuclear weapons...
...below swirl the icy black currents of the rushing St. Lawrence River. Snow-laden Arctic winds whistle past, and for an instant, at least, the feeling is that of being atop a giant, jagged iceberg floating downriver past Montreal. Inside the iceberg, though, all is snug and warm; a baroque symphony dances across the huge living room while the champagne bubbles and the soft lights glow. This is Habitat, the magnificent living complex designed by Israeli Architect Moshe Safdie and built on the tiny Cité du Havre peninsula for Canada's Expo '67. For a surprisingly long...